Bug#756535: apt: apt-transport-https package should be installed by default

[Julian Andres Klode <jak@jak-linux.org>]

On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 8:11 PM, Miguel Landaeta <nomadium@debian.org> wrote:
> Package: src:apt
> Version: 1.0.6
> Severity: normal
>
> https transport should not be treated different than ftp (to name
> one).
>
> Is really neccessary to have apt-transport-https package instead of
> having that transport in apt package directly?
>

It depends on curl. Curl pulls in many more libraries. The rest of APT
only depends on very few libraries.


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