From: dan@djph.net   
      
   On 2025-09-23, vallor wrote:   
   > On Mon, 22 Sep 2025 04:50:20 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D’Oliveiro   
   > wrote in <10aqkic$25c5i$1@dont-email.me>:   
   >   
   >> On Sun, 21 Sep 2025 23:08:57 -0400, Alan K. wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> I used the link by Lawrence and clicked on the first ftp us site.  And   
   >>> the deb downloaded.   
   >>   
   >> I was assuming that, if Debian upstream has it, then Debian derivatives   
   >> (e.g. Mint) would be likely to have it in their own repos, too.   
   >   
   > I owe you an apology, Lawrence -- it seems Ubuntu noble is based on a   
   > version of trixie, then they freeze it for their own purposes.   
   >   
   > I humbly abase myself.  You were right.   
   >   
   > _However_, I'm astonished that none of the debian download mirrors   
   > seem to support encryption.  Sure, the give the sha256sum on the   
   > web site, but still, adding TLS is fairly easy nowadays.   
      
   TLS really doesn't offer any benefit to the package update / transfer   
   process though.   
      
      
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