Bug#991894: debian-installer: Need to move into the 21st century with support for https in preeseed apt-setup
Package: debian-installer
Severity: wishlist
Dear Maintainer,
Debian *urgently* needs to move into the 21st century with first-class support for https in preeseed apt-setup automated installs !!
Thanks to projects such as Let's Encrypt and the major browsers actively pushing it, an increasing majority of web resources are going https only.
Debian not supporting https renders it useless.
For example :
d-i apt-setup/local0/repository string http://repo.saltproject.io/py3/debian/10/amd64/latest buster main
This might look good. But the problem is the target does a silent 301 Redirect to https. Which then kills the automation (apt-setup comments it out as "unverifiable").
It also prevents users setting https:// resources off the bat.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 10.10
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-17-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_GB:en (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
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