Bug#309564: cacert certificate

Alexander Sack asac at debian.org
Fri Jul 11 12:14:57 UTC 2008


On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 12:06:50PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote:
> also sprach Alexander Sack <asac at debian.org> [2008.07.11.1155 +0200]:
> > Is this something we want? What are our procedures for including new
> > CAs in debian/iceXXX?
> 
> I think we really want that, yes. CACert is to certificates what
> Free Software is to software. CACert has higher standards and better
> transparency than most commercial CAs, so it should be pervasively
> supported, at *least* by "100% Free operating system" Debian
> GNU/Linux.
> 
> Mike Hommey pointed me to
> mozilla/security/nss/lib/ckfw/builtins/README in the nss source for
> the fastest way to get CAcert's cert in for lenny
> 

So, do you want a _special_ inclusion for just cacert here or
something that honours the selections made during ca-certificates
package configuration?

 - Alexander






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