[Bug 1940570] [NEW] rewrite 50-motd-news to use wget instead of curl

[Steve Langasek]

Public bug reported:

50-motd-news is shipped in base-files and uses curl but cannot depend on
it. curl is not included by default on desktop installs. It'd be better
if wget was used instead of curl to get the news from motd.ubuntu.com.

This is not trivial to implement, the script uses several advanced
options of curl which don't appear to have direct equivalents in wget.

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

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Title:
  rewrite 50-motd-news to use wget instead of curl

Status in base-files package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  50-motd-news is shipped in base-files and uses curl but cannot depend
  on it. curl is not included by default on desktop installs. It'd be
  better if wget was used instead of curl to get the news from
  motd.ubuntu.com.

  This is not trivial to implement, the script uses several advanced
  options of curl which don't appear to have direct equivalents in wget.

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