Bug#882347: devscripts: rmadison silently fails if ca-certificates is not installed

[Andreas Beckmann]

Package: devscripts
Version: 2.17.11
Severity: normal

Hi,

just noticed by accident (in a porter chroot) that rmadison silently
fails if ca-certificates is not installed. After it nagged me about two
missing packages, I didn't expect it to silently fail for the third ...


(sid_hurd-i386-dchroot)anbe at exodar:~$ rmadison devscripts
rmadison: you must have the liburi-perl package installed
to use this script
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/bin/rmadison line 38.
# installed liburi-perl
(sid_hurd-i386-dchroot)anbe at exodar:~$ rmadison devscripts
Can't exec "wget": No such file or directory at /usr/bin/rmadison line 221.
# installed wget
(sid_hurd-i386-dchroot)anbe at exodar:~$ rmadison devscripts
(sid_hurd-i386-dchroot)anbe at exodar:~$ echo $?
1
# installed ca-certificates
(sid_hurd-i386-dchroot)anbe at exodar:~$ rmadison devscripts
devscripts | 2.12.6+deb7u2   | oldoldstable            | source, amd64, armel, armhf, i386, ia64, kfreebsd-amd64, kfreebsd-i386, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390, s390x, sparc
devscripts | 2.14.11~bpo70+1 | wheezy-backports        | source, amd64, armel, armhf, i386, ia64, kfreebsd-amd64, kfreebsd-i386, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390, s390x, sparc
devscripts | 2.15.3          | oldstable-kfreebsd      | source, kfreebsd-amd64, kfreebsd-i386
devscripts | 2.15.3+deb8u1   | oldstable               | source, amd64, arm64, armel, armhf, i386, mips, mipsel, powerpc, ppc64el, s390x
devscripts | 2.17.6~bpo8+1   | jessie-backports        | source, amd64, arm64, armel, armhf, i386, kfreebsd-amd64, kfreebsd-i386, mips, mipsel, powerpc, ppc64el, s390x
devscripts | 2.17.6+deb9u1   | stable                  | source, amd64, arm64, armel, armhf, i386, mips, mips64el, mipsel, ppc64el, s390x
devscripts | 2.17.6+deb9u1   | stable-debug            | source
devscripts | 2.17.11~bpo9+1  | stretch-backports       | source, amd64, arm64, armel, armhf, i386, mips, mips64el, mipsel, ppc64el, s390x
devscripts | 2.17.11~bpo9+1  | stretch-backports-debug | source
devscripts | 2.17.11         | testing                 | source, amd64, arm64, armel, armhf, i386, mips, mips64el, mipsel, ppc64el, s390x
devscripts | 2.17.11         | unstable                | source, amd64, arm64, armel, armhf, hurd-i386, i386, kfreebsd-amd64, kfreebsd-i386, mips, mips64el, mipsel, powerpc, ppc64el, s390x
devscripts | 2.17.11         | unstable-debug          | source


Andreas