libcurl3-gnutls in cosmic breaks git with Azure DevOps

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

I am the author of https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/2754 (which is the bug fix Mark talks about), and I can confirm that the upgrade is necessary to fix that bug.

Someone contacted me and requested the steps for the work around. Sharing here:

First, you need to add the bionic security repository to your apt sources list
$ sudo vim /etc/apt/sources.list
Add this line:
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ bionic-security main restricted

Update packages
$ sudo apt-get update

Then you need to downgrade libcurl3-gnutls:
$ sudo apt-get install libcurl3-gnutls=7.58.0*

As security packages are updated automatically by Ubuntu on a daily basis, you'll need to re-run this last command to downgrade libcurl3-gnutls every morning.

Faced same issue and solved by downgrading.

To avoid upgrade of package and adding bionic-security to sources list One can do:
1. Manually download package from https://packages.ubuntu.com/bionic/libcurl3-gnutls
2. Install libcurl3-gnutls with dpkg -i libcurl3-gnutls*.deb
3. Lock package version with apt-mark hold libcurl3-gnutls
4. Once update will be pushed just unlock package with apt-mark unhold libcurl3-gnutls

That's fixed to disco, upload a SRU backport to cosmic now

Greetings,
I'm quite new to Ubuntu. Recently decided to move from Windows to Ubuntu 18.10. I'm experiencing the same issue with authentication to azure devops repos during a pull. What is the fix to this?

@Thapelo, seems the back port is not yet in Cosmic (18.10). Follow the steps recommended by Mikhail Shevtsov to resolve the issue.

Hello Mark, or anyone else affected,

Accepted curl into cosmic-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/curl/7.61.0-1ubuntu2.5 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested and change the tag from verification-needed-cosmic to verification-done-cosmic. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-cosmic. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance for helping!

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

Thanks for pushing this fix through. Unfortunately, I went back to Bionic because of other hard dependencies and am unable to validate. Can others who hit this please try the fix?