Feature Request: Provide current fixed version of `curl` in custom repository

[CoSoCo]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

It is a little complicated to compile and build curl manually.
Additionally, automatic updates are not possible with this, especially on Ubuntu.

Describe the solution you'd like

Add a current version of curl to the same repository, i.e OpenSuse, from were the current version of OneDrive is to install.

Describe alternatives you've considered

Manually observe the progress of curl and always again compile and install curl from sources.

Additional context

Especially for Ubuntu users, it is difficult to get current fixed versions of curl.

[abraunegg]

Curl is not my responsibility to maintain or provide a package for.

Please use a better distribution that Ubuntu.

[CoSoCo]

If one could point me to a better distribution, where I can run the Unity-Desktop, I would be happy.

[abraunegg]

If one could point me to a better distribution, where I can run the Unity-Desktop, I would be happy.

So .. strictly speaking 'Unity-Desktop' was discontinued by Ubuntu in Ubuntu 17.01 and they switched back to GNOME.

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unity_%28user_interface%29
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_GNOME

Can you install Unity on other systems? Yes you can - you can install it on other Debian based systems - so installing it on Debian 12, where you can then use 'backports' to get up-to-date packages then becomes possible.

• https://askubuntu.com/questions/193847/can-i-install-just-the-unity-desktop-on-top-of-another-distro

What you really should consider however is migrating away from Ubuntu - but that is your choice of system, and that choice has implications and consequences that you need to work around.

[CoSoCo]

So .. strictly speaking 'Unity-Desktop' was discontinued by Ubuntu in Ubuntu 17.01 and they switched back to GNOME.
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unity_%28user_interface%29

If you read 2 lines more you read:
Unity7 is the default desktop environment in Ubuntu Unity, an official flavor of Ubuntu since 2022.
And between 2017 and 2022 ubuntu-unity.desktop still was an official optional Package in Ubuntu.

Can you install Unity on other systems? Yes you can - you can install it on other Debian based systems - so installing it on Debian 12, where you can then use 'backports' to get up-to-date packages then becomes possible.

Maybe a project for some long winter nights, not sure, if it will work.

* https://askubuntu.com/questions/193847/can-i-install-just-the-unity-desktop-on-top-of-another-distro

And the answer is:
If you want to install Unity on a distribution that is not Ubuntu, you run into problems. Unity needs changes in some Gnome libraries, that Gnome refused to accept. So these changes didn't make it into other distributions.

What you really should consider however is migrating away from Ubuntu - but that is your choice of system, and that choice has implications and consequences that you need to work around.

Yes, that's the problem, finding a good workaround.

[abraunegg]

Yes, that's the problem, finding a good workaround.

Stop using Ubuntu and/or Ubuntu Desktops! That is your workaround by migrating to better distributions!

[abraunegg]

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