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

[Fabian Grünbichler]

On November 28, 2020 12:41 pm, Jan Niehusmann wrote:
> 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?

yes, the explicit build-depends in libgit2 should fix it for all 
rdeps/architectures.