SFTP Support ! Still nothing ?

[Pierre Maoui]

Hi,

I don't understand why I can't use on a fresh install of Ubuntu 13.04 some tools relying on curl with SFTP support. I have to recompile curl myself and it cause tons of errors when I run apt-get upgrade. It would be nice to have the possibility to enable it easily.
It's around 1+ hour to compile everything.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Slogger (slogger)]

Yep, trying to curl with SFTP gives:
> * Protocol sftp not supported or disabled in libcurl
> * Closing connection -1
> curl: (1) Protocol sftp not supported or disabled in libcurl

This is STUPID and there's pretty much no excuse...

[Slogger (slogger)]

(Seriously, it took at least an hour to build itself, though I didn't wind up with errors because I built it with dpkg-buildpackage)

[linuxwrangler (scrawford-pinpointresearch)]

This has been broken for years. In this thread they kicked it up to Debian and marked it closed.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/curl/+bug/311029

But apparently Debian's response was unseen or ignored:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=587735

"This is an Ubuntu-only bug. Closing."

I would love to have the distributed package of curl support *all* protocols supported by the curl project including SFTP.

[Martin (ub71-martin)]

Hello, please do something !