[Bug 2025400] [NEW] zypper often fails to download packages when using HTTPS

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There are known issues in zypper that cause frequent failures to
download packages when using HTTPS:

https://github.com/openSUSE/zypper/issues/420
https://github.com/openSUSE/zypper/issues/399

There are a couple of fixes that solve most of the problems in libzypp:

https://github.com/openSUSE/libzypp/commit/25688b7f6da7a8ab2ef3ec2f68f4df86ff85e4b5
https://github.com/openSUSE/libzypp/commit/ac4f61ea6e3f825b17679cdad7a73f591e393124

It would be good to backport these to Jammy, given zypper is used to
bootstrap SUSE images from CIs running Jammy, like Github Actions.

[Impact]

We are hitting a lot of issues when using zypper with https on Jammy on
Github Actions, and these upstream changes help alleviate those issues.

[Major Changes]

Only two bugfix backports, no API changes:

https://github.com/openSUSE/libzypp/commit/25688b7f6da7a8ab2ef3ec2f68f4df86ff85e4b5
https://github.com/openSUSE/libzypp/commit/ac4f61ea6e3f825b17679cdad7a73f591e393124

[Test Plan]

Verified that zypper still works on jammy to bootstrap a suse image
using mkosi:

root at jammy:~# dpkg -l | grep libzypp1722
ii  libzypp1722:amd64                      17.25.7-2.1ubuntu0.22.04.1                             amd64        openSUSE/SLES package management system (library)
root at jammy:~# grep VERSION_ID /etc/os-release 
VERSION_ID="22.04"
root at jammy:~# mkosi -d opensuse -r tumbleweed --format=directory --package=systemd build
‣ Removing output files…
‣ Building default image
‣  Mounting image…
‣   Installing Opensuse
Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...
Resolving package dependencies...

The following 3 NEW packages are going to be installed:
  compat-usrmerge-tools filesystem system-user-root

3 new packages to install.
Overall download size: 0 B. Already cached: 371.4 KiB. After the operation, additional 731.5 KiB will be used.
Continue? [y/n/v/...? shows all options] (y): y
In cache compat-usrmerge-tools-84.87-5.14.x86_64.rpm                             (1/3), 286.6 KiB (730.0 KiB unpacked)
In cache system-user-root-20190513-2.11.noarch.rpm                               (2/3),   9.1 KiB (  275   B unpacked)
In cache filesystem-84.87-12.1.x86_64.rpm                                        (3/3),  75.7 KiB (  1.3 KiB unpacked)

Checking for file conflicts: ...................................................................................[done]
(1/3) Installing: compat-usrmerge-tools-84.87-5.14.x86_64 ......................................................[done]
<...>
Executing %posttrans scripts ...................................................................................[done]
‣   Generating system users
‣   Applying presets…
‣   Generating hardware database
‣   Recording packages in manifest…
‣   Cleaning rpm metadata…
‣  Unmounting image…
‣  Saving manifest image.manifest
‣  /root/mkosi/mkosi.output/image size is 77.6M.

[Regression Potential]

Minimal, only zypper is using this library:

root at jammy:~# apt-cache rdepends libzypp1722
libzypp1722
Reverse Depends:
  libzypp-dev
  zypper
  libzypp-doc
  libzypp-bin

** Affects: libzypp (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: Confirmed

** Affects: libzypp (Ubuntu Jammy)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: Confirmed

** Affects: libzypp (Ubuntu Mantic)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: Confirmed


** Tags: patch
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zypper often fails to download packages when using HTTPS
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2025400
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