Bug#999858: pbuilder: debconf template suggest obsolete plain-http URL

2021-11-17 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Jessica Clarke dixit: >benefit (primarily that a malicious actor can’t withhold updates; >Valid-Until is on a much longer timescale than TLS). Most of the other I don’t get that part. But I only know about the backend issue because Valid-Until will shrink to 3? 7? days for -security soon (see IRC

Bug#999858: pbuilder: debconf template suggest obsolete plain-http URL

2021-11-17 Thread Jessica Clarke
Control: retitle -1 pbuilder: does not autodetect https mirrors On 17 Nov 2021, at 22:44, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > > ydir...@free.fr dixit: > >> Nowadays only HTTPS entries are in sources.list (maybe that could > > What? No! It’s not the default in debootstrap or choose-mirror, but it can be

Bug#999858: pbuilder: debconf template suggest obsolete plain-http URL

2021-11-17 Thread Thorsten Glaser
ydir...@free.fr dixit: >Nowadays only HTTPS entries are in sources.list (maybe that could What? No! Besides, the CDN uses HTTP to the backend servers internally, so you SHOULD NOT use https with deb.debian.org or the older httpredir to avoid a false sense of security. bye, //mirabilos -- 21:12

Bug#999858: pbuilder: debconf template suggest obsolete plain-http URL

2021-11-17 Thread ydirson
Package: pbuilder Version: 0.231 Nowadays only HTTPS entries are in sources.list (maybe that could unblock a fix for #790565 ?), the debconf script seems to fail to detect a mirror as described in that bugreport... and we are shown: Here is a valid mirror example: http://deb.debian.org/debian