Bug#225487: apache-ssl: Postinstall fails with a "sed" error

[Douglas Maxwell <dmaxwell@acm.org>]

Hi Fabio-

On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 09:18:04PM +0100, Fabio Massimo Di Nitto wrote:
> 	I am just going trough the bug again and i noticed that there is
> stuff missing from the information required to generate the certificate
> like Locality Name.
> 
> All the fields are required to generate the certificate. Can you kindly
> try again removing /etc/apache-ssl/apache.pem, create a certificate with
> all the fields filled up?

I tried this, and it now seems to work fine. The cert is generated without
error, and apache-ssl starts as normal. This was definitely unexpected
behavior, though. I have generated self-signed certificates before and have
not had to fill in all the fields. Did this change recently? Would a warning
in debconf be appropriate, or perhasps some logic to refuse to generate the
cert if any fields are left blank?

Thanks for your time, it is much appreciated.

Regards,

Doug