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

[Jérémy Lal]

2016-10-25 1:43 GMT+02:00 Daniel Lo Nigro <lists at dan.cx>:

> Apart from that, is there a good reason to use Recommend instead of Depend
>> ?
>
>
> I'm not sure. wget and libcurl3-gnutls both "Recommend" rather than
> "Depend" on ca-certificates. I think it's because wget still mostly works
> without it, it's just TLS/SSL connections that fail. Node.js behaves the
> same way, all of Node.js works without ca-certificates except for TLS
> connections.
>
>
I'm leaning toward Depend, because upstream bundles certificates (and the
nodejs debian package patches upstream to use ca-certificates instead),
users expect the usual certificates independently of how they installed
nodejs.

Jérémy
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