Bug 428798

Summary:	New ebuild: dev-perl/Mozilla-CA (biber dependency)
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Mira Ressel <aranea>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Default Assignee for New Packages <maintainer-wanted>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX
Severity:	enhancement	CC:	dschridde+gentoobugs, perl
Priority:	Normal	Keywords:	EBUILD
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	340353
Attachments:	Mozilla-CA-20120309.ebuild

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