Except it doesn't really make any odds for Debian repositories, where the contents is signed using GPG. Transport encryption doesn't add anything if the data is already signed at source, and just makes mirroring and caching harder.
Newer versions of Apt (coming in Debian buster) have the https transport built-in, but until then you need to install apt-transport-https. Cheers, Chris On 12/10/18 19:44, Jonathan Stewart wrote: > I had to install apt-transport-https on debian 9 to reach the repositories. > > Personally, i was more surprised debian didn't support HTTPS by default > rather than surprised that BIRD is deprecating HTTP. The deprecation of > HTTP is happening everywhere. > > Jonathan > > On Fri, Oct 12, 2018 at 10:12 AM Adam Pribyl <pri...@lowlevel.cz > <mailto:pri...@lowlevel.cz>> wrote: > > We have embedded debian instalations using the debian bird package. > However the repo url http://bird.network.cz/debian/ is redirected to > https. This causes a problems, because our installations do not have > https > and apt ends with: > > The method driver /usr/lib/apt/methods/https could not be found. > > In my opinion the explicit http request should not be automaticaly > rewriten to https. > > Adam Pribyl > > > > -- > Jonathan -- Chris Boot bo...@boo.tc