[Pkg-nagios-devel] Bug#976218: file breaks nagios-plugins-contrib autopkgtest: SSL_CERT UNKNOWN www.debian.org: Unable to fetch a valid certificate issuer certificate.

[Christoph Biedl]

Paul Gevers wrote...

> With a recent upload of file the autopkgtest of nagios-plugins-contrib
> fails in testing when that autopkgtest is run with the binary packages
> of file from unstable. It passes when run with only packages from
> testing. In tabular form:

> autopkgtest [14:13:17]: test command7:
> /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_ssl_cert -H www.debian.org
> autopkgtest [14:13:17]: test command7: [-----------------------
> SSL_CERT UNKNOWN www.debian.org: Unable to fetch a valid certificate
> issuer certificate.
> autopkgtest [14:13:18]: test command7: -----------------------]

Okay, that error message was a bit misleading.

Full story: The test downloads the certificate from

    http://cert.int-x3.letsencrypt.org/

and runs file(1) on the result. And either something of "ASCII",
"PEM", or plain "data".

The file(1) program however now¹ outputs "Certificate, Version=3", and
the check cannot handle that.

While I could revert that change in file(1) I guess it's way better to
adjust nagios-plugins-contrib instead.

    Christoph

¹ https://github.com/file/file/commit/FILE5_38-41-g1956e3ad
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