** Description changed:

  In the Ubuntu raring (13.04) version of wget, there is a wget-udeb which
  installs its binary executable to /usr/bin/wget.gnu.
  
  This is presumably done in order to not break any setups that depend on
  busybox's wget implementation.
  
  However, since the primary reason wget-udeb exists in Ubuntu (wget-udeb
  is not built in Debian afaik) is because of the lack of SSL support in
  d-i and busybox-wget, it seems logical (to me) that it should overwrite
  the busybox wget symlink.  You're choosing to opt-in to GNU wget, so
  you're already rebuilding d-i/debian-cd and therefore know you're
  somewhat on your own.
  
  Unless there is a common use case I'm not considering where you want SSL
  support for something else, but somehow depend on the busybox
- implementation of wget for all things apt.
+ implementation of wget for the debootstrap portion of the install.
  
  What I expect to happen:
  1) modify d-i source to include wget-udeb
  2) rebuild d-i and point my sources to HTTPS repositories
  3) install Ubuntu without fear of the traffic being snooped in transit
  
  What happens instead:
  1) modify d-i source to include wget-udeb
  2) rebuild d-i and point sources to HTTPS repositories
  3) install fails because d-i calls /usr/bin/wget which points to busybox 
(which has no SSL support)
  
  Thanks for your time!
  
  Please note: this suggestion is not intended to securely authenticate
  the repository; that's absolutely another issue.  This is simply to
  address potential snooping of traffic in transit.

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  wget-udeb should install to /usr/bin/wget instead of /usr/bin/wget.gnu

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