[Pkg-rust-maintainers] Bug#953668: Bug#953668: cargo fails to find default X.509 certificates to validate https on powerpc

[Jan Niehusmann]

Hi,

On Thu, Mar 12, 2020 at 11:07:08AM +0100, Fabian Grünbichler wrote:
> I am not sure whether we want to work around it in cargo (by defaulting 
> to that location, for example), but this is related to
> 
>  https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=927889
> 
> libgit2 picks up an installed ca-certificates if available in the 
> build-env, but does not build-depend on it. if it was available, it sets 
> the default CA certificate location accordingly (at build time), and 
> cargo works. if it was not available, the certs provided by 
> ca-certificates need to be passed in explicitly by any user of libgit2.

As the bug is fixed in libgit2, and cargo links to the most recent
version of libgit2, I think this ticket can be closed, right?

(I'm hesitating to close it myself as didn't verify it really works as
expected, now.)

Jan