From: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
To: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
Cc: 27778@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#27778: Changing package source URLs from git:// to https://
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2017 14:00:52 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170725180052.GB32650@jasmine.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87pocpat1p.fsf@netris.org>
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On Tue, Jul 25, 2017 at 03:12:50AM -0400, Mark H Weaver wrote:
> Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> writes:
>
> > On Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 06:06:31PM -0400, Leo Famulari wrote:
> >> Let's change these packages to use HTTPS or HTTP!
> >
> > Well, I don't know any benefit to using HTTP over GIT, so I'm not going
> > to change the packages whose sources are not available over HTTPS.
>
> One benefit is that HTTP is more readily accessible via proxy servers,
> which is useful for people behind restrictive firewalls, or those who
> wish to use Tor.
Okay, that's indeed a plus for HTTP. I'll review the leftover packages
and see if we can fetch the source over HTTP.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-07-25 18:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-07-20 22:06 bug#27778: Changing package source URLs from git:// to https:// Leo Famulari
2017-07-22 23:33 ` Leo Famulari
2017-07-25 7:12 ` Mark H Weaver
2017-07-25 18:00 ` Leo Famulari [this message]
2017-08-27 22:36 ` Leo Famulari
2017-08-27 23:41 ` ng0
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