usertags: transitional

Please drop the transitional package apt-transport-https (from the source
package apt) after the release of bookworm, it has been released with buster
and bullseye already...


Description: transitional package for https support
Package: apt-transport-https
Version: 1.8.2.3
Version: 2.2.4
Version: 2.6.0

Thanks for maintaining apt!

Control: tag -1 wontfix

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.

fair enough.

even if apt provides apt-transports-https?

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