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-apt (1.5~alpha4) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
+apt (1.5~alpha4) experimental; urgency=medium
- The apt package now installs the http method for https access, the
- apt-transport-https package is deprecated, and installs a curl method
+ All known issues in the new https method have been fixed, including
+ support for https:// proxies and the CONNECT method. Therefore, the
+ the http method is now the default for https access.
+
+ The apt-transport-https package is deprecated, and installs a 'curl' method
now that can be used as a fallback with curl+https URLs, or by setting
Dir::Bin::Methods::https to "curl".