[Bug 1888572] [NEW] motd-news: use wget instead of curl

[Andreas Hasenack]

Public bug reported:

The motd-news script is using curl, but since that is an optional
package, there is no guarantee that it will be installed. The script
correctly checks for its presence before trying to use it, though, so it
won't fail. As we don't want to add such a dependency to the base-files
package, we should switch to wget, which is standard.

** Affects: base-files (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: Fix Released

** Affects: base-files (Ubuntu Xenial)
     Importance: Undecided
     Assignee: Andreas Hasenack (ahasenack)
         Status: In Progress

** Affects: base-files (Ubuntu Bionic)
     Importance: Undecided
     Assignee: Andreas Hasenack (ahasenack)
         Status: In Progress

** Affects: base-files (Ubuntu Focal)
     Importance: Undecided
     Assignee: Andreas Hasenack (ahasenack)
         Status: In Progress

** Also affects: base-files (Ubuntu Focal)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Also affects: base-files (Ubuntu Bionic)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Also affects: base-files (Ubuntu Xenial)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Changed in: base-files (Ubuntu Xenial)
       Status: New => In Progress

** Changed in: base-files (Ubuntu Bionic)
       Status: New => In Progress

** Changed in: base-files (Ubuntu Focal)
       Status: New => In Progress

** Changed in: base-files (Ubuntu Xenial)
     Assignee: (unassigned) => Andreas Hasenack (ahasenack)

** Changed in: base-files (Ubuntu Bionic)
     Assignee: (unassigned) => Andreas Hasenack (ahasenack)

** Changed in: base-files (Ubuntu Focal)
     Assignee: (unassigned) => Andreas Hasenack (ahasenack)

** Changed in: base-files (Ubuntu)
     Assignee: Andreas Hasenack (ahasenack) => (unassigned)

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Title:
  motd-news: use wget instead of curl

Status in base-files package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in base-files source package in Xenial:
  In Progress
Status in base-files source package in Bionic:
  In Progress
Status in base-files source package in Focal:
  In Progress

Bug description:
  The motd-news script is using curl, but since that is an optional
  package, there is no guarantee that it will be installed. The script
  correctly checks for its presence before trying to use it, though, so
  it won't fail. As we don't want to add such a dependency to the base-
  files package, we should switch to wget, which is standard.

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