Confusing provides in ca-certificate-utils / ca-certificates

Description:

I may be missing something here but:

1. ca-certificates is an empty package depending on ca-certificates-mozilla
2. ca-certficate-utils doesn't contain any certificates but has a provide for ca-certificates
3. ca-certfificates-mozilla depends on ca-certificate-utils

It seems to me that point 2 is a bit fishy. I assume the reason ca-certificates-mozilla doesn't provide ca-certificates is to support the old conflicts with ca-certificates-cacert (though 2014? Not really relevant any more).

But why does ca-certficate-utils provide ca-certficates since it seems you need -mozilla and -utils for a functioning setup? If someone wants to use an alternative provider of ca-certificates (from AUR I presume) that package could just provide ca-certificates and depend on -utils?

Maybe there is a brilliant hack I'm missing here, maybe it is some legacy thing, or maybe it is buggy?

I came across this weirdness as I was writing a tool traversing the package graph of pacman, and thought I had a bug in my tool (but apparently not).

Additional info:

• package version(s): ca-certificates-20240618-1, ca-certificates-mozilla-3.102-1
• config and/or log files: N/A
• link to upstream bug report, if any: N/A

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