From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: Re: Freedesktop and HTTPS redirection Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2016 14:54:39 +0100 Message-ID: <871t7xvt28.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20160219061642.GA22905@jasmine> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:49149) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aa1o5-0005zQ-Ow for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Feb 2016 08:54:46 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aa1o2-0006Lx-Ia for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Feb 2016 08:54:45 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20160219061642.GA22905@jasmine> (Leo Famulari's message of "Fri, 19 Feb 2016 01:16:42 -0500") List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Leo Famulari Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Leo Famulari skribis: > I've recently noticed a lot of source downloads from freedesktop.org > failing due to HTTP links being redirected to HTTPS. > > Does anyone know if this is a new policy for freedesktop.org? If so, we > should just change all the package definitions to use HTTPS URLs. In the meantime commit 5cc3096c changed those to use https, which was necessary (otherwise GnuTLS is missing from the download derivations), with the notable problem reported at (which I would like to address after the release.) Thanks, Ludo=E2=80=99.