Bug#903608: https downloads fail

[Sean Whitton]

control: close -1

Hello Joey,

On Wed 11 Jul 2018 at 04:22PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:

> Package: git-annex
> Version: 6.20180626-1
> Severity: normal

Closing the bug, since bugs in the backports suites aren't to be tracked
in the Debian BTS -- but we can still use the bug for discussion.

> Using this git-annex backport on stable, https downloads fail
> with "TlsExceptionHostPort (HandshakeFailed Error_EOF)"
>
> I believe this impacts S3 and WebDav too, I saw it with addurl and importfeed.
>
> This is an old bug in a haskell library, see
> https://github.com/vincenthz/hs-tls/issues/140
>
> See also, https://github.com/datalad/datalad-container/issues/18
>
> The non-backport version in stable does not use haskell for http, except
> for S3 and WebDav. It might have the same problem for those, but the
> backport is affected more badly since it relies on the haskell http
> library for all http.

Backporting the relevant Haskell libraries, as well as being an abuse of
backports (which is not for bug fixes), is completely impractical.  It
would be very difficult to keep the backported libraries up-to-date with
the state of testing (this is the reason that debug-me is not in
stretch-backports).

Therefore, the only way to fix what you've reported is to prepare stable
updates to the Haskell libraries.  FAOD I won't be able to do this, but
someone else could.

-- 
Sean Whitton
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