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From: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
To: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
Cc: 27778@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#27778: Changing package source URLs from git:// to https://
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2017 03:12:50 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87pocpat1p.fsf@netris.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170722233342.GA28762@jasmine.lan> (Leo Famulari's message of "Sat, 22 Jul 2017 19:33:42 -0400")

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.

      Mark

  reply	other threads:[~2017-07-25  7:13 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 [this message]
2017-07-25 18:00     ` Leo Famulari
2017-08-27 22:36       ` Leo Famulari
2017-08-27 23:41   ` ng0

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