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Re: [ft] Freetype HTTPS Download
From: |
Werner LEMBERG |
Subject: |
Re: [ft] Freetype HTTPS Download |
Date: |
Fri, 03 Nov 2017 10:19:38 +0100 (CET) |
Hello Jonas,
thanks for your report!
> The download links on https://www.freetype.org/download.html are all
> over HTTP, Freetype.org itself offers HTTPS, as well does Savannah and
> SourceForge (with the exception of gnuwin32), and gtk.org.
>
> Please update these links to use HTTPS.
Fixed.
> Additionally the link to <http://www.gtk.org/download/win32.php>
> "GTK's download page" is dead.
Updated.
> This is just a quick ping because I could not find a better place to
> send a quick message.
This is the right place :-)
> I am currently updating the freetype port in the Sortix operating
> system and keep an eye out of whether sites follow best practices.
> It could be good if there were SHA256 sums of releases available
> directly on freetype.org.
Please elaborate. Signature files for FreeType bundles are already
available from both gnu.org and sf.net. Isn't this sufficient?
Werner
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