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> 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