As recently found on an undisclosed gentoo channel, various git processes need SSL to work. > Send this email? ([y]es|[n]o|[e]dit|[q]uit|[a]ll): y > Not using SSL_VERIFY_PEER due to out-of-date IO::Socket::SSL. > To use SSL please install IO::Socket::SSL with version>=2.007 at /usr/lib64/perl5/5.30.3/Net/SMTP.pm line 268. In the old days, where they used Net-SMTP-SSL, this was fine. In the old days, even when git code didn't use Net-SMTP-SSL, but still depended on Net-SMTP-SSL, this was fine, due to the pull dep of IO-Socket-SSL However, Net::SMTP (in perl itself) inhaled "support" for doing SSL SMTP stuff, Net-SMTP-SSL was officially deprecated, and Git moved to using that. But its a "weak" optional dep, in that, the code just doesn't support SSL stuff without it, and barfs when you try. And this means on systems without IO-Socket-SSL, `git send-email` is broken, and due to the change in dependencies, this is currently highly likely to occur if you depclean anything. Subsequently, unless git forces IO-Socket-SSL into the dep graph, send-email can't work, ( though will continue to work if you USE="subversion" due to the libwww-perl dep ) And it seems rather strange for git to *directly* depend on IO-Socket-SSL, given it is now an indirect dependency. But we can't really stuff this into perl with a USE flag on dev-lang/perl, as this would be prohibitive for stabilization and keywording and everything. Instead, I propose that we add a PDEPEND to virtual/perl-libnet, who's job it is to make sure Net::SMTP is installed, which ensures IO-Socket-SSL is installed with USE="ssl" Then, git can simply depend on that however it likes, with whatever USE flag gating it wants. This is overall not a great thing still, given how IO-Socket-SSL has in the past been a difficult target for arches to keyword, exacerbated by the openssl-vs-libressl thing, which requires profile hackery for all arches who can't/don't want to support libressl But at least by putting it in libnet, not perl-itself, the scope of *users* who are forced to install this are minimized. This bug *probably* affects dev-perl/Email-Sender too.
The bug has been referenced in the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=3190c92ccaed20eb0edf154b76407e71d551ad95 commit 3190c92ccaed20eb0edf154b76407e71d551ad95 Author: Kent Fredric <kentnl@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2020-08-28 19:55:23 +0000 Commit: Kent Fredric <kentnl@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2020-08-28 19:55:42 +0000 virtual/perl-libnet: PDEPEND dev-perl/IO-Socket-SSL re bug #735004 This is necessary due to Net::SMTP having ssl mechanics, that don't work unless IO-Socket-SSL is available. However, adding this dep presently drops support for m68k and m68k-mint due to those arches not keeping on top of keywording for IO-Socket-SSL Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/735004 Package-Manager: Portage-2.3.103, Repoman-2.3.22 Signed-off-by: Kent Fredric <kentnl@gentoo.org> virtual/perl-libnet/perl-libnet-3.110.0-r4.ebuild | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+)
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=b1f2f5332ca6f4efb6a1afb916f1a1afe82c85ca commit b1f2f5332ca6f4efb6a1afb916f1a1afe82c85ca Author: Andreas K. Hüttel <dilfridge@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2021-05-02 12:42:03 +0000 Commit: Andreas K. Hüttel <dilfridge@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2021-05-02 12:51:42 +0000 virtual/perl-libnet: stable for all Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/735004 Package-Manager: Portage-3.0.18, Repoman-3.0.2 Signed-off-by: Andreas K. Hüttel <dilfridge@gentoo.org> virtual/perl-libnet/perl-libnet-3.110.0-r4.ebuild | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
