severity 348838 normal
tags 348838 moreinfo
thanks

On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 11:26:42AM +0100, rudy gevaert wrote:
> Package: libgnutls11
> Version: 1.0.16-13.1
> Severity: critical
> File: gnutls
> Justification: breaks unrelated software

> Please see
> http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/postfix/2006-01/1025.html

> Short summary: gnutls exits with error code 2 and postfix doesn't handle
> such exit codes (because openssl doesn't)

> I also filled a bug on the postfix package 348835

First, this is not "unrelated software".  Please don't abuse bug severities
in this way.

Second, how is anything here a gnutls bug, *at all*?  gnutls itself does not
"exit", it's a library; if it's returning errors due to the bug described in
348835, that is a perfectly reasonable thing to do -- what the heck do you
expect a cryptography library to do in the abscence of entropy?

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