Bug#897082: lintian: Please do not warn about debian-watch-uses-insecure-uri for ftp:// URIs

[Chris Lamb <lamby@debian.org>]

tags 897082 + moreinfo
thanks

Andreas,

> I: seaview source: debian-watch-uses-insecure-uri 
> ftp://pbil.univ-lyon1.fr/pub/ […]
> 
> Since there is no anonymous secure ftp this info is not very helpful
> IMHO.

Lintian asking you to encourage upstream to move to HTTPS. Or perhaps
I'm missing something here?

Fixing this issue would essentially involve marking "ftp://"; as a
secure protocol which is obviously not the case...


Regards,

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