Bug#988330: libbusiness-us-usps-webtools-perl: HTTP access shutting down June 24th, 2021

[Ivan Kohler]

Package: libbusiness-us-usps-webtools-perl
Version: 1.124-1
Severity: grave
Tags: upstream
Justification: renders package unusable
Forwarded: https://github.com/ssimms/business-us-usps-webtools/issues/2

USPS is sending notices that HTTP access will be turned off shortly, in favor
of HTTPS.

Given that is a web service that will break in the wild, in addition to a
regular update for unstable, we should update buster (and stretch) via
stable-updates (and oldstable-updates).

I can confirm that a package built with a simple s/http/https/ replacement
works with a live USPS account, at least on buster.  Note that since buster,
the module has been rewritten to use Mojo::UserAgent instead of LWP::UserAgent.

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