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

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** Merge proposal linked:
   https://code.launchpad.net/~ahasenack/ubuntu/+source/base-files/+git/base-files/+merge/388848

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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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