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Re: HTTPS needs to be implemented for updating

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Peter Lawler:
> 
> 
> On 18/12/16 22:03, Christoph Moench-Tegeder wrote:
>> second point requires a lot of work
>> to resolve.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Christoph
>>
> 
> Monday morning yet-to-be-caffienated thoughts...
> 
> I'm going to ignore the 'inconvenience' because I think in this case
> that's a specious argument.
> 
> I acknowledge there's a bucketload of work to implement this. Just gets
> me to thinking, staging a switch over may be better. eg, a new apt
> config for https as either 'required' 'desired' and 'off'. This reduces
> the initial workload. Start with the default 'off', then at some future
> release move to 'desired' then 'required'.
> 
> Further, I suggest perhaps an automated survey of the major mirrors to
> find which ones already support https may be in order. Perhaps the
> resultant data could be used by the apt-transport-https package for now,
> as well as deciding when the above mentioned switch over might occur.
> 
> As I say, decaffienated Monday morning thoughts.
> 

Here's a script I wrote to do just that, find all Debian mirrors that
support HTTPS:

https://gist.github.com/eighthave/7285154

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HTTPS needs to be implemented for updating gwmfms06@unseen.is - 2016-12-17 21:30 +0100
  Re: HTTPS needs to be implemented for updating Christoph Moench-Tegeder <cmt@burggraben.net> - 2016-12-18 12:10 +0100
    Re: HTTPS needs to be implemented for updating datanoise <datanoise@bitjungle.info> - 2016-12-18 13:10 +0100
      Re: HTTPS needs to be implemented for updating Casper Thomsen <ct@clearhaus.com> - 2016-12-19 09:20 +0100
        Re: HTTPS needs to be implemented for updating Christoph Biedl <debian.axhn@manchmal.in-ulm.de> - 2016-12-20 23:20 +0100
          Re: HTTPS needs to be implemented for updating Joerg Jaspert <joerg@debian.org> - 2016-12-21 09:40 +0100
            Re: HTTPS needs to be implemented for updating Marc Haber <mh+debian-security@zugschlus.de> - 2016-12-21 10:00 +0100
              Re: HTTPS needs to be implemented for updating Christoph Biedl <debian.axhn@manchmal.in-ulm.de> - 2016-12-21 10:10 +0100
    Re: HTTPS needs to be implemented for updating Peter Lawler <relwalretep@gmail.com> - 2016-12-18 22:30 +0100
      Re: HTTPS needs to be implemented for updating Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans@at.or.at> - 2016-12-19 12:00 +0100
        Re: HTTPS needs to be implemented for updating Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans@at.or.at> - 2016-12-20 10:50 +0100
          Re: HTTPS needs to be implemented for updating Sven Hartge <sven@svenhartge.de> - 2016-12-20 18:20 +0100
          Re: HTTPS needs to be implemented for updating Martin Zobel-Helas <zobel@debian.org> - 2017-03-03 11:30 +0100

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