Finding bugs where nobody has found before: helping cURL to avoid patch releases
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Describes using cURL release candidates plus Debian CI to detect bugs and regressions before upstream releases, enabling maintainers to avoid issuing post-release patch versions. Explains the workflow and tooling that Debian packagers used to collaborate with upstream cURL to find and fix issues pre-release.
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