On Fri, Mar 10, 2023 at 01:33:23PM +0000, Holger Levsen wrote: > On Fri, Mar 10, 2023 at 02:25:59PM +0100, Julian Andres Klode wrote: > > We have no plans to drop this package for the foreseeable future. Doing > > so breaks various bootstrapping tools and causes severe headaches we > > don't have the capacity to deal with. > > even if apt provides apt-transports-https? apt already does, longer than (trying to) dropping a-t-h even. The whole reason the package was reintroduced quickly after Julian dropped it was that tools like debootstrap were exploding, and even if he was expressing hope for the better in the commit message I have my serious doubts that has changed and as he said we aren't exactly able to fix the world… hands (more than) full with what we have now already. If you can come with prove that debootstrap (and probably other tools) can deal with virtual packages nowadays, we will be happy to oblige – and I think I know a couple other people who would be happy, too. Adding Provides: https://salsa.debian.org/apt-team/apt/-/commit/c6a428e4d17b408c2701def5daa46ca950948980 Drop a-t-h: https://salsa.debian.org/apt-team/apt/-/commit/5e770a07c8fd649340e83725f6d07b94c361e87c Reintroduce: https://salsa.debian.org/apt-team/apt/-/commit/afe3cd6ef1b157a07d05bbf70283e4f175813438 Best regards David Kalnischkies
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