Bug#854210: libnet-xmpp-perl: sendxmpp can't send message to hangouts (work fine for 1.02-5)

[Markus Gschwendt]

On Tue, 2017-06-27 at 23:08 +0200, gregor herrmann wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Jun 2017 21:06:20 +0200, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote:
> 
...
> > Maybe I miss something obvious, but IMHO the bug should 1/ be
> > reassigned to sendxmpp itself. Then the question is if sendxmpp
> > should
> > be patches actually (if so it might need to depend on
> > ca-certificates), or "just" document when
> > -tls-ca-path="/etc/ssl/certs" needs to be passed.

If people don't like to use SSL (which i would consider as a bad idea
these days) they also don't want a dependency on ca-certificates. So it
should be a 'reccomended package'.

But if ca-certificates is installed, it would be nice to have tls-ca-
path="/etc/ssl/certs" set as default. Otherwise it will not be used
anyways.
If the -t flag is used and no certs are found, there should be a error
message which suggests the installation of the ca-certificates package
or to set a proper path to manually deployed certs.


...
> Ack, AFAICS Net::XMPP fixed a bug (ignoring the path to the certs)
> and this triggered the necessity for sendxmpp to set it (by the user
> or in the code). 

I'd like to have the default set in Net::XMPP debian package to have it
available in several applications which use this library.
Maybe in sendxmpp too.

> -- At the other end of the chain XML::Stream is just
> a general-purpose low-level library, and changes there look like the
> wrong place to me.

ACK. this would be too low-level.

Markus