clone 601506 -1
retitle -1 Documentation errors regarding bbstored-certs
severity -1 minor
thanks
On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 07:42:18PM +0000, Clint Adams wrote:
> $root_sign_period is set to 10000 days, so when a new CA pair
> is initialized, gnutls thinks the expiration is in 1969 and
> openssl thinks the expiration is in 1902.
So, I can confirm this. Amazingly, this seems to be a Y2038 bug... The
fix is trivial (one-liner) if one chooses to cut the days e.g. into half
(resulting in certificates expiring in 2024 instead of 2038), which is a
fair compromise. The bug is quite recent, so I'll leave the maintainer
(who tends to be responsive) to handle it.
Another reason for not NMU'ing is that in the progress of confirming this
I encountered other minor problems with the package that should be dealt
with, preferrably by the maintainer:
* The debconf template suggests installing the package boxbackup-utils,
which doesn't exist (this would need another round of translation
fixes)
* bbstored-certs' manpage is totally broken, with nroff commands
appearing in the output.
The combination of the two resulted in puzzling me on how to properly
use the CA part of the package while trying to reproduce this.
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