Bug#756535: apt: apt-transport-https package should be installed by default
Control: severity -1 wishlist
On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 10:08 PM, Miguel Landaeta <nomadium@debian.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 08:21:24PM +0200, Julian Andres Klode wrote:
>>
>> It depends on curl. Curl pulls in many more libraries. The rest of APT
>> only depends on very few libraries.
>
> Thanks for the clarification. I wasn't aware of how this transport is
> implemented.
>
> Since this would need to reimplement the transport without curl, maybe
> I can retitle this bug and lower its severity to wishlist. Agree?
It's not wise to write yet another https implementation. But the bug
should be wishlist anyway, although with people.debian.org becoming
https-only it is a bit annoying.
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Julian Andres Klode - Debian Developer, Ubuntu Member
See http://wiki.debian.org/JulianAndresKlode and http://jak-linux.org/.
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