Bug#348838: gnutls: gnutls exits with error code 2 breaks postfix
Steve Langasek wrote: First, this is not unrelated software. Please don't abuse bug severities in this way. sorry about that 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? It is not a question about what to do in abscence of entropy it's about the exit code. Because Debian compiles some other libraries with gnutls instead of openssl and gnutls returns a non standard exit code, in this case it can break other software. In my case postfix fails to return the error message from gnutls because it expects a 0 or 1 exit code. I assumed that this was the way to report this. So that you can take action if you think it is necessary. Kind regards -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Rudy Gevaert e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Directie ICT, Afdeling Infrastructuur Groep Systemen tel: +32 9 264 4734 Universiteit Gent fax: +32 9 264 4994 Krijgslaan 281, gebouw S9, 9000 Gent, Belgie www.UGent.be -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#348838: gnutls: gnutls exits with error code 2 breaks postfix
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 -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.4.31-ugent-pe Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) Versions of packages libgnutls11 depends on: ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-22 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libgcrypt111.2.0-11.1LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr ii libgpg-error0 1.0-1 library for common error values an ii liblzo11.08-1.2 A real-time data compression libra ii libopencdk80.5.5-10 Open Crypto Development Kit (OpenC ii libtasn1-2 0.2.10-3 Manage ASN.1 structures (runtime) ii zlib1g 1:1.2.2-4.sarge.2 compression library - runtime -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#348838: gnutls: gnutls exits with error code 2 breaks postfix
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? -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/ signature.asc Description: Digital signature
