Bird debian repo now over https only?

[Chris Boot]

Except it doesn't really make any odds for Debian repositories, where
the contents is signed using GPG. Transport encryption doesn't add
anything if the data is already signed at source, and just makes
mirroring and caching harder.

Newer versions of Apt (coming in Debian buster) have the https transport
built-in, but until then you need to install apt-transport-https.

Cheers,
Chris

On 12/10/18 19:44, Jonathan Stewart wrote:
> I had to install apt-transport-https on debian 9 to reach the repositories.
> 
> Personally, i was more surprised debian didn't support HTTPS by default
> rather than surprised that BIRD is deprecating HTTP.  The deprecation of
> HTTP is happening everywhere.
> 
> Jonathan
> 
> On Fri, Oct 12, 2018 at 10:12 AM Adam Pribyl <pribyl at lowlevel.cz
> <mailto:pribyl at lowlevel.cz>> wrote:
> 
>     We have embedded debian instalations using the debian bird package.
>     However the repo url http://bird.network.cz/debian/ is redirected to
>     https. This causes a problems, because our installations do not have
>     https
>     and apt ends with:
> 
>     The method driver /usr/lib/apt/methods/https could not be found.
> 
>     In my opinion the explicit http request should not be automaticaly
>     rewriten to https.
> 
>     Adam Pribyl
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
>      Jonathan


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