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zmap / zlint

X.509 Certificate Linter focused on Web PKI standards and requirements.
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CABF SMIME lints failed to be registered in the CLI due to a missing blank import #761

Closed christopher-henderson closed 11 months ago

christopher-henderson commented 11 months ago

Thank you for your patience @cardonator

The infrastructure for a lint to register itself leans on Go's magical init function which is automatically executed at program startup.

However, the init function is not executed if the package is not referred to by the main program, which is why zlint.go features a short list of imports performed solely for the side effect of triggering these init functions.

Unfortunately, we missed this import when building the CABF SMIME framework. The cause is that almost all of the testing, tooling, and integration tests are focused on either the library usage of Zlint or on testing lints against the corpus of certs scraped from the wild. Such a CLI integration test would be a valuable thing to consider spending time on, however I believe it is out of scope of this particularly pernicious issue.

Resolves #759

cardonator commented 11 months ago

Nice, thanks! I had almost fixed this myself before bringing it up but I missed the import in zlint.go. Good to know about that detail!