Bug#859930: apt-transport-https: Add http/2 support

[Julian Andres Klode <jak@debian.org>]

Control: tag -1 wontfix

On Sun, Apr 09, 2017 at 01:52:03PM +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote:
> Package: apt-transport-https
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Can you add http/2 support?

I'd assume that it currently has http/2 support, as it's using
curl. If so, that will likely be dropped in the next release
cycle, if we add TLS support to the http method.

I don't think we want to implement http/2 support in apt at
all - implementing the binary framing, multiplexing, header
compression, and all the other stuff is a lot of work.

I don't think there is anything to gain from HTTP/2 support
- we don't fetch small files, so all the multiplexing, binary
framing, and header compression is basically irrelevant.
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