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Package: sympa
Version: 6.0.1+dfsg-2
Severity: grave
To start correctly, task_manager.pl daemon expects
/usr/share/sympa/default/ca-bundle.crt to be a valid symlink to
/etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt.
ca-certificates (which provides /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt)
should be a real dependency instead of a recommend.
M.
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On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 08:38:10PM +0200, Emmanuel Bouthenot wrote:
Is that path hardcoded or configurable?
Yes, the “cafile” option in sympa.conf but...
If configurable, only recommending is the proper relation to use.
It's configurable but (AFAIK) the taskmanager daemon needs it to start.
If this option is not defined in sympa.conf, there is a fall back to
the default hardcoded value: /usr/share/sympa/default/ca-bundle.crt
So sympa needs _some_ value for cafile, and ca-certificates provides a
sane default for _most_ situations.
The Recommends: stanza is _exactly intended for such situations.
There was a long-time bug in apt-get to wrongly treating Recommends like
Suggests. It was a bug and it has been solved. What is left is the
wrong assumption amongst those used to the old wrong behaviour of
apt-get. You need to un-learn that :-)
Also, why is this a grave issue?
I agree that the severity is probably too high.
ok.
The taskmanager is used to purge several kinds of datas (old bounced
mails, database logs, etc...). Under some conditions, it could conduct
to eat more and more disk space (on /var for example) and to hang the
whole system.
This sounds like a different bug: If a needed file does not exist then
the tool should fail to run, not hang the system. Tightened package
dependency is only covering over such issue in the sympa code.
Please file a separate bugreport about that issue.
I hereby close this as a non-bug. If you disagree, it is easy to reopen
again :-)
Kind regards,
- Jonas
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