Bug#749498: devscripts: uscan should recognize copyright format 1.0 with https URL too

[Jakub Wilk]

[Disclaimer: IANA devscripts maintainer]

* Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog at debian.org>, 2014-05-27, 14:47:
>uscan just told me this:
>WARNING: The file debian/copyright mentions Files-Excluded, but its format is not recognized. Specify Format: http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/ in order to remove files from the tarball with mk-origtargz.
>
>But my copyright file uses that format except that the first line says:
>Format: https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/

Well, formally uscan is right. This is not the URL Policy specifies.

>That's because www.debian.org redirects to https by default...

Not quite. There is no HTTP redirect as far I can see. But 
https://www.debian.org/ is served with Strict-Transport-Security header, 
so if you ever visited it with a modern browser, it will remember to 
connect to www.debian.org only via HTTPS.

-- 
Jakub Wilk