[Pkg-javascript-devel] Bug#841981: nodejs should recommend ca-certificates

Jérémy Lal kapouer at melix.org
Mon Oct 24 23:40:10 UTC 2016


2016-10-25 0:26 GMT+02:00 Daniel Lo Nigro <debianbugs at dan.cx>:

> Package: nodejs
> Version: 4.6.0~dfsg-2
> Severity: normal
>
> Dear Maintainer,
>
> When CA certificates are not available, Node.js scripts that try to
> connect to remote servers using TLS/SSL fail with "Error: unable to get
> local issuer certificate".
>
> Other packages that rely on TLS (such as wget and libcurl3-gnutls)
> recommend the ca-certificates package, so nodejs should probably also do
> this.
>
>
This is a mistake - nodejs-dev got the dependency instead of nodejs.

Apart from that, is there a good reason to use Recommend instead of Depend ?

Jérémy
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