severity 915644 wishlist tags 915644 + patch quit HJ wrote: > On Wed, 5 Dec 2018 at 19:11, Jonathan Nieder <jrnie...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hm. Git already depends on libcurl3-gnutls, which recommends >> ca-certificates. Can you say more about your setup where this >> happened? > > I use a minimal debian setup installed with a netinstall and its configured > not to see suggested or recommended packages as dependencies(since that > would add a lot of bloat to my system ~500 packages more). However, > recently I needed git and was unable to clone the https repo. Also since > this breaks a core funtionality of the package it should be added directly > to the package so it is visable for everyone by browsing the package > details with apt or synaptic (Nobody thinks of a dependency of a > recommended package if he has an issue) Thanks for the explanation. Makes sense. -- >8 -- Subject: debian/control: add Recommends against ca-certificates Without certificates, cloning an https URL produces $ git clone https://gitlab.com/foo.git Cloning into 'foo'... fatal: unable to access 'https://gitlab.com/foo.git/': server certificate verification failed. CAfile: none CRLfile: none libcurl already Recommends ca-certificates for this purpose, but on a machine configured not to install Recommends, it may be hard to find this package in a package manager. Add a recommendation from the leaf package for better discoverability. Fixes: https://bugs.debian.org/915644 Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnie...@gmail.com> --- debian/changelog | 7 +++++++ debian/control | 2 +- 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog index fc50a86bda..ca8930d63c 100644 --- a/debian/changelog +++ b/debian/changelog @@ -1,3 +1,10 @@ +git (1:2.20.0~rc2-1.1) unstable; urgency=low + + * package git: Recommends: ca-certificates for https support (thx HJ; + closes: #915644). + + -- Jonathan Nieder <jrnie...@gmail.com> Wed, 05 Dec 2018 15:36:36 -0800 + git (1:2.20.0~rc2-1) unstable; urgency=low * new upstream release candidate. diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control index 377cf76aa9..b36d764a62 100644 --- a/debian/control +++ b/debian/control @@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ Multi-Arch: foreign Depends: ${misc:Depends}, ${shlibs:Depends}, perl, liberror-perl, git-man (>> ${source:Upstream-Version}), git-man (<< ${source:Upstream-Version}-.) Pre-Depends: ${misc:Pre-Depends} -Recommends: patch, less, ssh-client +Recommends: ca-certificates, patch, less, ssh-client Suggests: gettext-base, git-daemon-run | git-daemon-sysvinit, git-doc, git-el, git-email, git-gui, gitk, gitweb, git-cvs, git-mediawiki, git-svn -- 2.20.0.rc2.403.gdbc3b29805
