Author: Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>
Description: Using wget instead of curl for improved reliability with poor connections.

diff -Naurp devscripts.orig/scripts/dget.pl devscripts/scripts/dget.pl
--- devscripts.orig/scripts/dget.pl
+++ devscripts/scripts/dget.pl
@@ -49,14 +49,14 @@ my $modified_conf_msg;
 
 my $compression_re = compression_get_file_extension_regex();
 
-# use curl if installed, wget otherwise
-if (system("command -v curl >/dev/null 2>&1") == 0) {
-    $wget = "curl";
-} elsif (system("command -v wget >/dev/null 2>&1") == 0) {
+# use wget if installed, curl otherwise
+if (system("command -v wget >/dev/null 2>&1") == 0) {
     $wget = "wget";
+} elsif (system("command -v curl >/dev/null 2>&1") == 0) {
+    $wget = "curl";
 } else {
     die
-"$progname: can't find either curl or wget; you need at least one of these\ninstalled to run me!\n";
+"$progname: can't find either wget or curl; you need at least one of these\ninstalled to run me!\n";
 }
 
 # functions
@@ -607,7 +607,7 @@ looks for matching files in I</var/cache
 given by the B<--path> option or specified in the configuration files
 (see below).  Finally, if downloading (.orig).tar.gz or .diff.gz files
 fails, dget consults B<apt-get source --print-uris>.  Download backends
-used are B<curl> and B<wget>, looked for in that order.
+used are B<wget> and B<curl>, looked for in that order.
 
 B<dget> was written to make it easier to retrieve source packages from
 the web for sponsor uploads.  For checking the package with