On 04/17/2014 04:57 AM, Jakub Wilk wrote: > Thanks for the bug report. > > * Hans-Christoph Steiner <h...@eds.org>, 2014-04-16, 23:23: >> lintian does not recognize the https variant of this URL: >> >> https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/ > > This is not the correct URL according to the copyright-format specification, > so in a way Lintian is right. Still and all, Lintian should recognize it, just > like it recognized many other outdated or slightly malformed URIs. We probably > need a separate tag (or even tags) to complain about them. >
It is indeed a minor point, but as part of the push towards HTTPS everywhere, I've gotten used to putting HTTPS by default as often as possible. I do think if its an easy change, it is worthwhile to make. .hc
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