On Sun 15 Aug 2021 at 11:36:54 +0200, Hans wrote: [...]
> 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.
