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I'm fairly new to Ubuntu, and just realised that all my ppa's I've been adding are http only

Are there plans for https support in the future?

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  • Highly unlikely, for the same reasons as in askubuntu.com/questions/352952/…
    – muru
    Mar 7, 2017 at 12:12
  • @DavidFoerster Thats for the Ubuntu repository lists, that doesn't apply to PPA's does it? Mar 7, 2017 at 13:48
  • It applies to PPAs as well if the maintainer signs the published packages which is usually the case. Mar 7, 2017 at 14:01
  • @DavidFoerster You can't upload an unsigned package to a PPA. Signature is mandatory. So it is not "usually" the case. It is always the case.
    – Pilot6
    Mar 7, 2017 at 18:33
  • @Pilot6: AFAIK that's true for Launchpad PPAs but not all Apt-compatible package repositories in general. Mar 7, 2017 at 18:51

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There is no need in https because all packages in PPA are signed with GPG.

So it does not matter where do you download the packages from if you are sure that they are authentic.

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