[Feature Request] Make PPAs available over HTTPs for apt-get

[jean-christophe manciot]

Currently, only HTTP can be used to access the PPAs with apt-get.

For instance with graphics drivers PPA in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/graphics-drivers-ubuntu-ppa-yakkety.list:
deb https://ppa.launchpad.net/graphics-drivers/ppa/ubuntu yakkety main #Graphics Drivers PPA

leads to:

# apt-get update
...
Ign:4 https://ppa.launchpad.net/graphics-drivers/ppa/ubuntu yakkety InRelease
Ign:5 https://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb stable InRelease
Hit:6 https://apt.dockerproject.org/repo ubuntu-xenial InRelease
Err:7 https://ppa.launchpad.net/graphics-drivers/ppa/ubuntu yakkety Release
  404 Not Found
...

This feature should be considered compulsory.

[William Grant (wgrant)]

Note that this is just a privacy issue. apt authenticates PPAs by their OpenPGP signatures, not TLS, so there's no code execution risk.