[DRE-maint] Bug#1069258: ruby-curb: test regression with curl 8.7.1: client read function EOF fail, only only 4/5 of needed bytes read

[Samuel Henrique]

Hello all,

> These messages with "only only (n)/(n+1) of needed bytes read" seem to
> be characteristic. As well as being a FTBFS, this is also an autopkgtest
> regression when upgrading curl, which is one of several factors preventing
> curl from migrating; that, in turn, blocks elfutils, which blocks GLib,
> which will likely be blocking a significant chunk of the 64-bit time_t
> transition.

I believe this is an issue on ruby-curb and not on curl, check the following
thread on curl-library for details and possible solutions:
https://curl.se/mail/lib-2024-03/0054.html

Cheers,

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Samuel Henrique <samueloph>