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#23513
package.el treats empty signatures as correct
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Reported by: "L. Dixon" <_ <at> lizzie.io>
Date: Wed, 11 May 2016 18:23:01 UTC
Severity: important
Tags: patch, security
Done: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
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On 05/16/2016 09:39 PM, Glenn Morris wrote:
>> That's definitely a cause for concern. Glenn, does Hydra lack the
>> necessary libraries to support the package signature check?
>
> Hydra's "gnupg" package is from the 2.0 series, and only provides a
> "gpg2" executable. epg-config--program-alist requires something from the
> 2.1 series. So (epg-find-configuration 'OpenPGP) fails with "no usable
> configuration".
>
> I have added "gnupg1" to the requirements for the coverage build in an
> effort to get a "gpg" executable. We'll see if this helps.
Thanks.
Ideally, we'd have something like (skip-unless (or (getenv "HYDRA")
(ignore-errors ...)), to make sure the tests like that are _not_ skipped
on the CI.
Individual contributors may not have gpg installed (although there's a
case to be made that the package tests should just fail for them), but
the CI is our last "line of defense", especially for important tests.
> (It would be easier to see if this worked if the coverage job wasn't
> currently failing, as it has been for two weeks, due to network-stream
> changes that cause a test failure - bug#23508. This is a repeated pattern
> that makes me think people don't actually pay much attention to the
> coverage job.)
I've noticed this failure when running tests locally, but it's far from
my area of expertise.
I think using a separate mailing list for the build status notifications
might be a mistake. I'm not subscribed to it (not sure why; maybe I've
missed the announcement), and apparently not many other people are.
There's not a lot traffic there, why not just send it to emacs-devel?
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