Bug#1140332: marked as done (apt: missing dependency: apt update fails without ca-certificates installed)

"Debian Bug Tracking System" <[email protected]> Thu, 18 Jun 2026 13:43:01 +0000
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Your message dated Thu, 18 Jun 2026 15:41:17 +0200
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and subject line Re: Bug#1140332: (no subject)
has caused the Debian Bug report #1140332,
regarding apt: missing dependency: apt update fails without ca-certificates=
 installed
to be marked as done.

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1140332: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=3D1140332
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From: =?utf-8?q?Manuel_V=C3=B6gele?= <[email protected]>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <[email protected]>
Subject: apt: missing dependency: apt update fails without ca-certificates installed
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Package: apt
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On Thu, Jun 18, 2026 at 02:10:43PM +0200, Manuel Vögele wrote:
> * What led up to the situation?
>   To keep our installations minimal, we uninstall all packages from our system that we don't explicitly need. As it turns out none of the packages we selected for the given system depends on ca-certificates, so this got uninstalled as well.
> 

That's user error.

> * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)?
>   Running apt update (as well as apt install) fails if ca-certificates is not installed

Well only if you use an https source.

apt Recommends ca-certificates, as such the requirement is perfectly
captured (required by default-ish, but can be optionally removed)

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