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=1140332
Debian Bug Tracking System
Contact [email protected] with problems
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Package: apt
Version: 3.0.3
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

*** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate ***

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   * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
     ineffective)?
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-- (/etc/apt/preferences.d/salt-pin-1001 present, but not submitted) --


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# sources are now configured in sources.list.d/debian.sources

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Types: deb
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Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

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Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
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Versions of packages apt depends on:
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ii  base-passwd             3.6.7
ii  debian-archive-keyring  2025.1
ii  libapt-pkg7.0           3.0.3
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ii  libsystemd0             257.13-1~deb13u1
ii  sqv                     1.3.0-3+b2

Versions of packages apt recommends:
ii  ca-certificates  20250419

Versions of packages apt suggests:
pn  apt-doc         <none>
ii  aptitude        0.8.13-7
ii  dpkg-dev        1.22.22
ii  gnupg           2.4.7-21+deb13u1
pn  powermgmt-base  <none>

-- no debconf information

--- End Message ---
--- Begin Message ---
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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ubuntu core developer                              i speak de, en

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