Bug#897082: lintian: Please do not warn about debian-watch-uses-insecure-uri for ftp:// URIs
Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> writes:
> Chris Lamb:
>> Hi Andreas,
>>
>>> [...]
>> ... which does seem to cover the ftp:// case. Perhaps you were
>> thinking of something like:
>>
>> The watch file uses an unencrypted transport protocol for the
>> URI such as http:// or ftp://. It is recommended to use a secure
>> transport such as HTTPS for anonymous read-only access.
> Perhaps "... such as HTTPS or FTPS (FTP + TLS) for anonymous read-only
> access." would help cover the FTP-case?
I suspect the number of free software distribution sites that currently
use FTP but would support FTP + TLS is at most a rounding error away from
zero.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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