From: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
To: 52690@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: [bug#52690] Remove direct dependencies on the nss-certs certificate store
Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2021 19:36:31 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YcEhjz3Fm6ekOXhs@jasmine.lan> (raw)
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Three packages depend directly on nss-certs: ldns, pypy3, and icedtea6.
This is a problem because certificates expire. When that happens, the
features of these programs that use X.509 certificates will stop
working. Instead, packages should look up certificates at run-time in
unversioned and well-known locations such as /etc/ssl/certs or via
environment variables like $SSL_CERT_DIR.
I'll send a patch removing the dependency from ldns.
pypy3 does not build anyways because its runpath cannot be successfully
validated, but I will investigate anyways after disabling the runpath
validator.
Icedtea6 is a very complex package. I assume it depends on the
certificates directly for a good reason, but I would still appreciate
some feedback on it.
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next reply other threads:[~2021-12-21 0:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-12-21 0:36 Leo Famulari [this message]
2021-12-21 0:37 ` [bug#52690] [PATCH] gnu: ldns: Do not depend directly on nss-certs Leo Famulari
2021-12-21 2:48 ` [bug#52690] [PATCH] gnu: pypy3: Prohibit references to nss-certs Leo Famulari
2021-12-26 17:37 ` [bug#52690] Remove direct dependencies on the nss-certs certificate store Mathieu Othacehe
2021-12-26 20:55 ` Leo Famulari
2021-12-26 21:32 ` [bug#52690] [PATCH] gnu: IcedTea: Prohibit references to nss-certs Leo Famulari
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