bug#27778: Changing package source URLs from git:// to https://

[Leo Famulari]

On Tue, Jul 25, 2017 at 02:00:52PM -0400, Leo Famulari wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 25, 2017 at 03:12:50AM -0400, Mark H Weaver wrote:
> > Leo Famulari <address@hidden> writes:
> > 
> > > On Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 06:06:31PM -0400, Leo Famulari wrote:
> > >> Let's change these packages to use HTTPS or HTTP!
> > >
> > > Well, I don't know any benefit to using HTTP over GIT, so I'm not going
> > > to change the packages whose sources are not available over HTTPS.
> > 
> > One benefit is that HTTP is more readily accessible via proxy servers,
> > which is useful for people behind restrictive firewalls, or those who
> > wish to use Tor.
> 
> Okay, that's indeed a plus for HTTP. I'll review the leftover packages
> and see if we can fetch the source over HTTP.

I didn't find any package sources using GIT that could use HTTP
but not HTTPS. I pushed my changes related to this bug report as
5f13bf0972310dfd5e2f26a4adc8b5aab4be7407.

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