curl and certificate verification in jessie

[Ian Jackson]

Ian Jackson writes ("Re: curl and certificate verification in jessie"):
> Daniel Kahn Gillmor writes ("Re: curl and certificate verification in jessie"):
> > It seems to narrowly solve the case in question, but possibly at the
> > risk of making the semantics of the API even more confusing than it
> > already is.
> 
> If they didn't want the API to be full of confusing
> backward-compatibility special cases, they shouldn't make
> backwards-incompatible changes :-).

More constructively: I think we should consider carrying such a patch
in Debian for jessie even if upstream don't want it in their API
permanently.

In stretch we can add new options to curl to make it use the new API.

Ian.