[Bug 1754294] Re: After last updated libcurl3 on libcurl4, some apps are removed.

[William Jojo]

I have done much packaging back in my days in AIX. This looks to be a
simple case of one dependency to break them all - libxmltooling7 (see
#54 & #62, above). However looks can be deceiving.

For the complexity, see:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=828607#49

The details for libxmltooling supporting OpenSSL 1.1 appears to be fixed below.
https://issues.shibboleth.net/jira/browse/CPPXT-110

There is still the issue of release.

However, there are other pieces that need to fall in line.
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=859829
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=859831

I do not envy the ladies and gents that have to make this library soup
palatable to all, it is often exhausting, seemingly thankless and
involves much waiting on others.

Yes, it is broken, but not because of Canonical. In a way, I blame
myself a bit since a release upgrade test of 16.04 or clean install of a
shib-ed web server using the beta release during implementation of
libcurl4 (prior to Bionic's official release) would have revealed
breaking of Shib2 SP and this could have been posted to the release
notes.

Of course, like most, my hindsight is rather sharp.

** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #828607
   https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=828607

** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #859829
   https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=859829

** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #859831
   https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=859831

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Title:
  After last updated libcurl3 on libcurl4, some apps are removed.

Status in curl package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Hi!

  After last updated libcurl3 on libcurl4, system (Kubuntu 18.04 bionic) deleted such applications as:
  virtualbox-5.2
  opera-stable
  slack-desktop

  I really need these applications, I installed them with broken
  dependencies, but they are deleted after each update. Is it possible
  to make the dependence of the libcurl3 in libcurl4, and not remove it
  altogether from system?

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