GnuTLS versions 2.9.7 and later breaks libsoup (epiphany)

[Andreas Metzler]

On 2010-06-27 Dan Winship <danw at gnome.org> wrote:
> On 01/-10/-28163 02:59 PM, Simon Josefsson wrote:
> >> Shouldn't GnuTLS fall back to the supported protocol (SSL 3.0) in that
> >> case instead of getting stuck?
> > 
> > I think there is a bug in epiphany (or libsoup) here that cause it to
> > send the same request over and over again

> Yes, that was already fixed in libsoup; Debian must not have the latest
> version.
[...]

Debian has 2.30.1 in unstable and 2.31.2 in experimental. 2.31.2 indeed
does not send endless request but simply says

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Unable to load page

Problem occurred while loading the URL https://db.debian.org/

SSL handshake failed: A record packet with illegal version was
received.

[Try again]
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cu andreas