This also affects the installation of popular 3rd party application Spotify: https://community.spotify.com/t5/Desktop- Linux/libcurl4/m-p/4411011#M15902
I wonder, Debian still has libcurl3 versioned library/symbols in their 'unstable' repo, their libcurl4 is only in experimental yet. I understand that with the perspective of LTS-support upgrading to libcurl4 can be a good move, from security perspective, but there should be a graceful upgrade path and if possible some kind of legacy support of packages that were built using libcurl3 (maybe the libcurl3 libs can also be part of the libcurl4-package and that in its dpkg control it also 'provides' libcurl3? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to curl in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1754686 Title: libcurl4 Conflicts: libcurl3 - prevents install of 3rd party apps like slack-desktop Status in curl package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Updating the curl package pulls in libcurl4, which for some reason forces libcurl3 to be removed. This prevents 3rd party apps that still build against libcurl3 from being installed. Isn't there a more graceful way to effect the transition from libcurl3 to libcurl4? ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04 Package: libcurl4 7.58.0-2ubuntu2 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-10.11-generic 4.15.3 Uname: Linux 4.15.0-10-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.20.8-0ubuntu10 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: GNOME Date: Fri Mar 9 10:10:10 2018 EcryptfsInUse: Yes SourcePackage: curl UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to bionic on 2018-03-06 (2 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/curl/+bug/1754686/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp