Bug#992362: release-notes: Out of step wuth apt maintainers
On Wed 18 Aug 2021 at 20:42:16 +0100, Brian Potkin wrote:
> On Wed 18 Aug 2021 at 10:19:06 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
>
> > On Ma, 17 aug 21, 20:20:40, Brian Potkin wrote:
> > > Package: release-notes
> > > Severity: normal
> > >
> > >
> > > Please see
> > >
> > > https://lists.debian.org/debian-doc/2021/08/msg00077.html
> > >
> > > Then look at
> > >
> > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=758316
> > >
> > > How abut a bit of consistency?
> >
> > As I understand it the APT maintainers are just saying it doesn't bring
> > much (if any) security or privacy benefit, they don't explicitly
> > recommend against it.
>
> They closed the report. That is sufficient reason to take notice of
> their stance.
>
> > For the Release Notes itself there is however a real benefit in avoiding
> > all future bug reports asking to use https:// everywhere ;)
>
> A reasonable acceptable argument in this context.
For future readers of this report, the bascic issue has been thoroughly
discussed in the thread beginning at
https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2021/08/msg00269.html
Cheers,
Brian.
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