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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