[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#1082121: libostree-1-1: `flatpak update` fails: src/libostree/ostree-fetcher-curl.c:534:sock_cb: code should not be reached

[Simon McVittie]

On Fri, 04 Oct 2024 at 11:59:02 -0400, Steve wrote:
> How are we supposed to upgrade this when a package isn't available
> unless one downloads from another repository, other than Stable?

You did already install a core system library (libcurl3-gnutls) from
a repository other than stable (bookworm-backports), and that's what
triggered this. If you can downgrade libcurl3-gnutls back to the version
from stable, that should avoid this issue.

Updating core system libraries like libcurl has a risk of regressions
associated with it - that's why we have stable releases! - and that
risk doesn't go away just because the package has been made available
in bookworm-backports.

I have asked the stable release team to include a fixed version of ostree
(compatible with the backported libcurl) in the next Debian 12 point
release, but the proposed version has not yet been approved. If/when
they approve it, it will appear in the stable-proposed-updates repository
and it will become possible to install it from there.

    smcv