428798 – New ebuild: dev-perl/Mozilla-CA (biber dependency)

Bug 428798 - New ebuild: dev-perl/Mozilla-CA (biber dependency)

Summary: New ebuild: dev-perl/Mozilla-CA (biber dependency)

Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	New packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Normal enhancement (vote)
Assignee:	Default Assignee for New Packages

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Keywords:	EBUILD

Depends on:
Blocks:	340353
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Reported:	2012-07-31 13:39 UTC by Mira Ressel
Modified:	2013-04-04 17:15 UTC (History)
CC List:	2 users (show)

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Description Mira Ressel 2012-07-31 13:39:51 UTC

Created attachment 319860 [details]
Mozilla-CA-20120309.ebuild

Please add the attached ebuild. It is a dependency of dev-tex/biber (bug #340353).

Comment 1 Torsten Veller (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2012-09-11 16:46:19 UTC

I still like to avoid adding Mozilla-CA.
We should patch biber to use the certs from app-misc/ca-certificates.

Comment 2 Mira Ressel 2012-09-11 18:19:30 UTC

I fully agree to you that this approach would be better, but I don't feel experienced enough with perl to do that...

Comment 3 Sven 2012-09-12 00:53:19 UTC

(In reply to comment #2)
> I fully agree to you that this approach would be better, but I don't feel
> experienced enough with perl to do that...

And even more important: why did the biber developers go with Mozilla-CA instead?
We could also ask upstream, why they don't support app-misc/ca-certificates (of which I'm sure, some equivalent exists on other distros, right?).

Comment 4 Mira Ressel 2012-09-13 14:52:33 UTC

Yes, there are equivalents. On debian-bases distros, for example, the paths are exactly the same.

This whole part of biber looks like it could need some refactoring (identical or similar code in 4 or 5 different files), so if someone has time to spare, I'm sure upstream would be cooperative. I'll have a look at it myself – I'm not sure if I can handle it with my limited knowledge of perl, but maybe it's easier than I expect...

Comment 5 Mira Ressel 2012-10-05 18:58:57 UTC

I patched biber to avoid using Mozilla::CA, see #340353.

Comment 6 Christopher Schwan 2013-04-04 16:24:09 UTC

We have a patch for the most recent version of biber, therefore this bug should be closed RESOLVED WONTFIX - it's no longer needed.

Comment 7 Sergey Popov gentoo-dev

2013-04-04 17:15:17 UTC

(In reply to comment #6)
> We have a patch for the most recent version of biber, therefore this bug
> should be closed RESOLVED WONTFIX - it's no longer needed.

Ok, closed