Bug#47625: apt: wish: Add a 'slow' or 'modem' option to Queue-Mode

[Peter Cordes <peter@llama.nslug.ns.ca>]

Jason wrote: 

> There is actually a complicated reason why it is like this. You see each
> download process gets its own URL queue and http/ftp have different
> download processes. It is difficult to serialize them as a single queue.

 Why not run all the FTP downloads, then run all the http downloads?  It
can't be that hard to not start the http download process until the ftp one
is done.

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