the new apt-transport-tor

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It happened: Now that I am an uploading DD for a few months I finally made my first upload of a package – mind you, not of apt, but of a package I declared my intend to "steal" from another person a few weeks ago on deity@ and later also in a bugreport (#835128).

The result is that apt-transport-tor which used to be maintained by Tim Retout as a modified copy of apt code is now maintained by the APT team (with him and me as uploaders) using the apt code directly via a few symlinks.

That brings along a bunch of changes which I mentioned in the list/bug as well, but for completeness:

I had tried a few times to get people to provide feedback, but there wasn't much. I guess this is good as it means nobody has any complains about it. We will see if that will change now that it is on its way to archive, buildds, mirrors and users: Brace for impact in any case!