[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#1016589: ostree: Please don't link against libsoup2.4

[Jeremy Bicha]

On Wed, Aug 3, 2022 at 4:29 PM Simon McVittie <smcv at debian.org> wrote:
> For libostree, we could switch from libsoup to libcurl, which is what
> e.g. Fedora uses anyway. We'll still need libsoup2.4 for the test suite,
> but I assume that's no problem.
>
> For Flatpak, the development version in experimental can similarly use
> libcurl. I don't think there is any upstream-merge-ready branch that uses
> libsoup3.
>
> Using libcurl will likely bring some regressions for http/https proxy
> server users, but if corporate users with locked-down networks want to
> make that work better, I'm sure patches are welcome.

Yes, I think we should use the libcurl implementation for now.

I don't see any problem with continuing to use libsoup2.4 for the test
suite. libsoup2.4 will be around for a while.

Thank you,
Jeremy Bicha