Bug#810378: lintian: suggest to use https:// over git:// (was: Re: Death to git://! Long live git://!)

[Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org>]

Package: lintian
Severity: wishlist

Paul Tagliamonte <paultag@debian.org> writes:
> We still have `git://` all over the place, for instance, on Vcs-Git on
> control files. That makes me sad. Boo insecure transports.
>
> `git://` is plaintext, and plaintext transports are bad.
>
> I'd like to suggest we move all Vcs-Git entries to either `https` or
> `ssh`.

I think moving to https:// over git:// is a good idea.  lintian could
probably suggest this change, just like it did with canonical VCS URLs
before.

Ansgar