Bug#797477:

2016-02-26 Thread Nathaniel Smith
Unfortunately, this 1-byte change -- while a good idea -- is ineffective on its own, because emacs does not verify TLS connections by default... and in fact the gnutls configuration in Debian's emacs is somehow so broken that it doesn't check certificates *even if* certificate checking is enabled :

Bug#797477: No longer marked as "forwarded upstream"

2015-09-20 Thread Francois Marier
Removing the "forwarded" flag since upstream are wanting a much more complicated change (and are not actually working on it, it seems): https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2015-05/msg00110.html In Debian, we can assume that GnuTLS will be present and skip the whole HTTP failback. All

Bug#797477: emacs24: emacs should use HTTPS with the default elpa.gnu.org package repo

2015-08-30 Thread Francois Marier
Package: emacs24 Version: 24.5+1-1 Severity: normal Tags: patch emacs currently uses http://elpa.gnu.org as the default built-in package repository. Fortunately, that server already works over HTTPS too, so my patch simply changes the default config to use an HTTPS URL for this. I will submit th