Bug#518473: Support for netrc

[David Kalnischkies <kalnischkies+debian@gmail.com>]

While it is now commited and this message will maybe redirected to /dev/null
i just want to express that i am unhappy with this patch:
First of all: It has no documentation - this is unfortunately also true for
many other apt features, so this is maybe not a real no-go,
but also the manpage for the netrc file doesn't even suggest the usage of
this file for https -- for me it looks like it should be used only for
"user configuration for ftp" (man 5 netrc).
So if this file is really used for https in realworld someone should patch
the manpage - otherwise this new "feature" seems more like an ugly hack...
(and the last think we need is yet another hack in apt i guess)

On the other hand, apt already includes a way for client authentication
(i think) since 0.7.15~exp1 using certificates.
See the very short man 5 apt.conf description and the (in my eyes) more
useful descriptions in the beloved config-example:
/usr/share/doc/apt/examples/apt-https-method-example.conf.gz
Options: Acquire::https[::repo.domain.tld]::{CaInfo,SslCert,SslKey}
(This is btw one of the under-documented features -
feel free to provide patches for this one as well)

So i am also not really sure if this feature is needed at all --
or only for the very limited usecases the submitter described original...


Best regards / Mit freundlichen Grüßen,

David "DonKult" Kalnischkies