On Sat, 1 Aug 2009 00:30:00 +0200
Philipp Kern <pk...@debian.org> wrote:

> severity 528204 normal
> thanks
> 
> <rant>
> > To: undisclosed-recipients: ;
> On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 09:15:01AM -0400, Andres Salomon wrote:
> > reassign 538204 ca-certificates
> > thanks
> 
> I didn't get any notification about the reassignment.  Please copy me
> next time you try this.  The To was also very unhelpful.
> </rant>
> 

Hm, I thought maintainers were normally copied when a bug
is sent to #...@bugs.d.o. My apologies.


> > Sure, it could be ca-certificates.  I'm reassigning accordingly.
> > As I said, I'm pretty certain that I didn't manually remove the
> > cert.
> 
> RC bug bouncing is fun.
> 
> > > Martin Pitt and I just checked and found three points:
> > > 1) pkg:ca-certificates provides those PEM files.
> 
> Untrue.  If anything ssl-cert provides them.
> 

Please reassign accordingly, then.  I have not attempted to debug this,
nor do I have any interest in playing package politics.  I am merely
reporting a bug.

> > > 2) CUPS only depends on the certificates.
> > > 3) Any missing certificate could only be the result of a) manual
> > > removal or b) broken maintainer scripts in pkg:ca-certificates.
> 
> So ssl-cert actually stores data in /etc/ssl/certs.  ca-certificates
> should not remove anything that's in /etc/ssl/certs unless you tell
> it to in ca-certificates.conf (by prefixing the cert filename
> with !), by virtue of update-ca-certificates.
> 
> It does, however, purge dangling symbolic links in certain
> circumstances. But those shouldn't have been symlinks after all.
> 
> The maintainer scripts only do fancy editing on ca-certificates.conf
> and call update-ca-certificates.
> 
> Unless I'm provided with more information (i.e. a reproducable
> testcase) or am pointed to something that ca-certificates clearly
> does wrong it's probably not a valid RC bug...
> 

How exactly does "I require a testcase" equate to "not a valid RC
bug"?  If it's unreproducable, that's fine, but we have a tag
specifically *for* that.

I filed the bug in an attempt to be helpful.  Your attitude has shown
me that you do not want my help, so I will not bother you any further.



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