Hey there, We would also like to see that for Ubuntu since libssh is in main, switching would allow to also remove the debian/rules hack to disable the sftp backend on Ubuntu.
Updated patch included
diff -Nru curl-7.63.0/debian/changelog curl-7.63.0/debian/changelog --- curl-7.63.0/debian/changelog 2019-01-15 21:47:40.000000000 +0100 +++ curl-7.63.0/debian/changelog 2019-01-31 15:37:27.000000000 +0100 @@ -1,3 +1,11 @@ +curl (7.63.0-2) unstable; urgency=medium + + * debian/control, debian/rules: + - build with libssh instead of libssh2, that's a better maintained + library and other distributions already switched to it + + -- Sebastien Bacher <[email protected]> Thu, 31 Jan 2019 15:29:39 +0100 + curl (7.63.0-1) unstable; urgency=medium * New upstream release diff -Nru curl-7.63.0/debian/control curl-7.63.0/debian/control --- curl-7.63.0/debian/control 2019-01-15 21:47:40.000000000 +0100 +++ curl-7.63.0/debian/control 2019-01-31 15:31:23.000000000 +0100 @@ -18,7 +19,7 @@ libnss3-dev, libpsl-dev, librtmp-dev (>= 2.4+20131018.git79459a2-3~), - libssh2-1-dev, + libssh-dev, libssl-dev (>= 1.1), libtool, openssh-server <!nocheck>, diff -Nru curl-7.63.0/debian/rules curl-7.63.0/debian/rules --- curl-7.63.0/debian/rules 2019-01-15 21:47:40.000000000 +0100 +++ curl-7.63.0/debian/rules 2019-01-31 15:29:29.000000000 +0100 @@ -15,15 +15,10 @@ CONFIGURE_ARGS = -- --disable-dependency-tracking \ --disable-symbol-hiding --enable-versioned-symbols \ --enable-threaded-resolver --with-lber-lib=lber \ - --with-gssapi=/usr --with-libssh2 --with-nghttp2 \ + --with-gssapi=/usr --with-libssh --with-nghttp2 \ --includedir=/usr/include/$(DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH) \ --with-zsh-functions-dir=/usr/share/zsh/vendor-completions -# disable libssh2 on Ubuntu (see #888449) -ifeq ($(shell dpkg-vendor --derives-from Ubuntu && echo yes),yes) - CONFIGURE_ARGS += --without-libssh2 -endif - %: dh $@
