Control: tags -1 + moreinfo On Thu, 2016-07-14 at 19:49 +0200, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > I think debian should offer publicsuffix via stable-updates. > > publicsuffix ships a file that is updated semi-regularly to reflect the > state of the network (a list of all DNS domains which members of the > public might be able to register immediate subzones). It's used for > HTTP cookie policy and for X.509 wildcard certificate issuance, among > other uses. > > In this way, it's similar to tzdata. > > I've prepared a "jessie" branch on the debian packaging repo, which > currently builds fine on stable, and is a simple package: > > https://anonscm.debian.org/git/collab-maint/publicsuffix
Please could we have a debdiff, relative to the current package in jessie, in this bug log? (We prefer p-u bugs to be self-contained, and not have to rely on your git tree existing for arbitrary periods in the future, or on it not changing after we give an ack.) > The only difference in the resultant package (beyond the updated data) > is that the version in jessie (20140902-1) ships with only the legacy > location for the data file > (/usr/share/publicsuffix/effective_tld_names.dat) while the updated > file ships that as a symlink to the modern location of the file > (/usr/share/publicsuffix/public_suffix_list.dat) > > Any concerns if i upload this to proposed-updates with an eye toward > stable-updates? How frequently would you imagine that the package would need to be updated in stable? Regards, Adam
