Hi migthy release managers of Debian! I have been take care of HTTPS Everywhere in Debian for the past months (source: https-everywhere).
HTTPS Everywhere is an extension for Iceweasel that force the use of HTTPS on many websites. It works by shipping a list of rules of how URL should be rewritten to maximize HTTPS usage. This list of rules is by very nature quite volatile: in the 11394 currently included hostname, there's probably a small change of policy every day. Upstream has a very conservative approach to releases. Once a release is stable, updates are limited to very important bugs, fixing current rules and updates to certificate whitelist. Nevertheless, according to my calculations, a new stable release happened every 20 days on average for the current stable (3.x) branch. In order to be useful and provide good web browsing experience, HTTPS Everywhere rules need to be kept up to date. Given all the above, do you think HTTPS Everywhere could be part of a Debian stable release? (Please keep me CC'ed, I'm not subscribed to -release.) Thanks for your time, -- Jérémy Bobbio .''`. lu...@debian.org : :Ⓐ : # apt-get install anarchism `. `'` `-
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