https-finder stopped working and has been abandoned for a long time. Please remove package.

[Ansgar Bohmann]

I've been using https-finder for many years. The last time it successfully discovered HTTPS on my computer was on March 7, 2016 (according to the auto-created rules for HTTTP-Everywhere). Since approximately then, it stopped working and seems to do nothing at all. (And yes, I explicitly allowed add-ons without Mozilla signature to be run in Firefox.) This has already been reported to Debian https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=827174 on June 13, 2016.

The last commit to the upstream repository https://github.com/kevinjacobs/HTTPS-Finder was made on April 15, 2014 (more than two years ago) and upstream bug reports haven't been answered since. In particular — despite a corresponding bug report https://github.com/kevinjacobs/HTTPS-Finder/issues/26 opened on August 15, 2015 — no version of this add-on has ever been signed by Mozilla. The missing signature will soon make this add-on dysfunctional with the stable releases on Firefox anyhow.

I'm afraid there is no hope to revive this package and it should better be removed from the Ubuntu repositories.