Bug#1000785: bullseye-pu: package curl/7.74.0-1.3+deb11u1

["Adam D. Barratt" <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk>]

Control: tags -1 + confirmed

On Wed, 2021-12-01 at 11:06 +0100, Helmut Grohne wrote:
> Control: tags -1 - moreinfo
> 
> Hi Adam,
> 
> On Tue, Nov 30, 2021 at 08:25:57PM +0000, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
> > What's the potential impact of the change? Is "curl-config --
> > configure" 
> > consumed by anything, other than human eyeballs?
> 
> curl-config is mainly meant for machine consumption. It kinda is a
> predecessor of pkg-config.
> 
> Preconditions to be affected:
>  * You must perform a build of a software using one of the
>    libcurl*-*-dev packages.
>  * Your build must not use pkg-config (very uncommon), but rather use
>    curl-config.
>  * Your build consumes curl-config --cflags (roughly equivalent to
>    pkg-config --cflags libcurl).
> 
> As such I think that the number of affected users is fairly small
> (due to the requirement of not using pkg-config).
> 

Thanks for the detailed explanation. Please go ahead.

Regards,

Adam