Bug#518473: lp:~mvo/apt/netrc branch

[Michael Vogt <mvo@debian.org>]

Hi,

Thanks for the discussion and sorry that I'm so late joining it.

I like the idea of havng a netrc like file so that the sources.list
does not have to hold username/password anymore and I agree with David
that we should support the netrc file for all protcols where it makes
sense (ftp, http, https), not just https.

I created a lp:~mvo/apt/netrc branch that adds the netrc parser from
maemons apt (git://gitorious.org/maemo-af/apt.git, David pointed me to
the branch) and I plan to merge that to the debian-sid branch soon.

One issue that we need to think about is that it looks like netrc does
support machine, user, password. But often we want different
users/passwords for different urls on the same machine. I guess it
makes sense to extend the code that it first looks at machine+url and
fallback to machine (currently the code in the branch will only look
at the host part).

Thanks,
 Michael