One year later (2019-02) the LTS (18.04.1, bionic) still has that issue! Why is that excption in the debian build:
# cat curl3-7.58.0/debian/rules | grep -A 3 Ubuntu ifeq ($(shell dpkg-vendor --derives-from Ubuntu && echo yes),yes) CONFIGURE_ARGS += --with-libssh2 endif -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/311029 Title: curl and pycurl is not compiled with sftp support To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/curl/+bug/311029/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs