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Re: Issues with Bullseye



On Sun 15 Aug 2021 at 11:36:54 +0200, Hans wrote:

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> Another thing besides this: I am wondering, why the debian documentation differs 
> between http and https at the entries for the security and the normal
> packages. I would have been expected, that all entries are using https, and no more 
> http. Any special reoson for it or is it just a forgotten change?

Does

 https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/90227/why-is-there-no-https-transport-for-debian-apt-tool

address your query?

An excerpt from the page:

  Debian doesn't make HTTPS downloads easy because there is very little
  benefit. Debian package distribution already includes a mechanism to
  verify packages: all packages are signed with Gpg.

-- 
Brian.


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