According to the last of Corinna's pings that I read, the curl packages were abandoned with no response from the maintainer. If that is not the case then ignore the rest of this.
I would like to adopt these packages and maintain them. The current packaged version is somewhat old anyway, and I believe that someone mentioned it being vulnerable to a security flaw. Below are packages for 7.15.0. The major changes that I have made compared to the old packaging are as follows: 1. I have split the runtime into its own libcurl3 package. This will help for future ABI changes. I don't think that anything currently links against libcurl. The only packages currently in the distro that require it are clamav and vorbis-tools. I checked clamav and it apparently calls curl when running freshclam but it is not directly linked to libcurl. I did not check vorbis-tools but I assume it's the same situation. On the other hand, one example of a popular program that does link to libcurl is PHP, and so I suppose I'm just looking ahead to the day when we finally get PHP in the distro and libcurl decides to change its ABI. I'm certainly willing to forget this and package the .dll with the 'curl' package if there is some reason for that, but I figured that it would be a good opportunity to do the right thing. 2. I linked against GNUTLS instead of OpenSSL. This eliminates a nasty potential GPL issue, which is detailed at <http://curl.haxx.se/legal/licmix.html>. Essentially, the situation is that OpenSSL+libcurl is fine license-wise, but if someone then tried to link that libcurl to a pure GPL app they'd be in violation of the GPL because of its incompatibility with the BSD advertising clause of OpenSSL. A lot of GPL programs have the "openssl exception" for this very reason, but libcurl can't count on that. It's probably not an issue right now for Cygwin, but it just seemed easier to me to ignore the potential problem and use GNUTLS. GNUTLS doesn't support everything that openssl does, but the things it lacks (like the ancient SSLv2) seem to be relatively minor corner-cases. 3. The HTML versions of the manpages are not included. It seemed wasteful to have identical docs in two formats, but I'm willing to include the html if it's an issue. 4. I used the GBS instead of whatever was in use before. Please review my packaging, since I'm sure I made a trivial mistake somewhere. sdesc: "command line tool for transferring files with HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, etc." ldesc: "cURL is a command line tool for transferring files with URL syntax, supporting FTP, FTPS, TFTP, HTTP, HTTPS, GOPHER, TELNET, DICT, FILE and LDAP. curl supports HTTPS certificates, HTTP POST, HTTP PUT, FTP uploading, HTTP form based upload, proxies, cookies, user+password authentication (Basic, Digest, NTLM, Negotiate, kerberos...), file transfer resume, proxy tunneling and a busload of other useful tricks." category: Web Net requires: cygwin libcurl3 http://dessent.net/cygwin/release/curl/curl-7.15.0-1-src.tar.bz2 http://dessent.net/cygwin/release/curl/curl-7.15.0-1.tar.bz2 http://dessent.net/cygwin/release/curl/setup.hint sdesc: "runtime library for cURL" ldesc: "cURL is a command line tool for transferring files with URL syntax, supporting FTP, FTPS, TFTP, HTTP, HTTPS, GOPHER, TELNET, DICT, FILE and LDAP. curl supports HTTPS certificates, HTTP POST, HTTP PUT, FTP uploading, HTTP form based upload, proxies, cookies, user+password authentication (Basic, Digest, NTLM, Negotiate, kerberos...), file transfer resume, proxy tunneling and a busload of other useful tricks." category: Libs requires: cygwin libgnutls11 zlib external-source: curl http://dessent.net/cygwin/release/curl/libcurl3/libcurl3-7.15.0-1.tar.bz2 http://dessent.net/cygwin/release/curl/libcurl3/setup.hint sdesc: "development support files for cURL/libcurl (headers, static libs, samples, and docs)" ldesc: "cURL is a command line tool for transferring files with URL syntax, supporting FTP, FTPS, TFTP, HTTP, HTTPS, GOPHER, TELNET, DICT, FILE and LDAP. curl supports HTTPS certificates, HTTP POST, HTTP PUT, FTP uploading, HTTP form based upload, proxies, cookies, user+password authentication (Basic, Digest, NTLM, Negotiate, kerberos...), file transfer resume, proxy tunneling and a busload of other useful tricks." category: Web Net Devel requires: cygwin libcurl3 curl external-source: curl http://dessent.net/cygwin/release/curl/curl-devel/curl-devel-7.15.0-1.tar.bz2 http://dessent.net/cygwin/release/curl/curl-devel/setup.hint You can also use <http://dessent.net/cygwin/> as a location if you want to test with setup.exe. Brian
