On Sat, Aug 10, 2019 at 12:48 PM Kevin Fenzi <ke...@scrye.com> wrote:
>
> On 8/10/19 4:12 AM, Björn Persson wrote:
> > Rafal Luzynski wrote:
> >> 9.08.2019 22:10 Jerry James <loganje...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> Source: https://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/gettext/%{name}-%{version}.tar.xz
> >>
> >> Do we need to change ftp to https?
> >
> > That's the wrong question to ask. The right question is: What reason is
> > there to choose an insecure protocol when HTTPS is available?
>
> I'm confused by this... https is already being used, it is just the
> hostname that is 'ftp'. So, I would see no reason to change this, but I
> suppose you could ask upstream to rename the host to avoid confusion...
>
> kevin

The site still supports FTP, which I suspect is why they use the same
name for both services. Check out ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/
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