On Fri, Oct 12, 2018 at 01:44:55PM -0500, 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.
There is no deprecation of http :-). The deprecation of http happening in heads of strange people :-). It still performs its tasks. Many people transition to https because of fashion and trends, not for technical reasons. It's said, but people still stupid in most :-). -- Олег Неманов (Oleg Nemanov)