Re: Bug#519003: ITP: xca -- x509 Certification Authority management tool based on QT4
On Mon, Mar 09, 2009 at 21:10:30 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: [...] If XCA has _any_ documentation at all, it is already better than TinyCA2 in something. It has a lot of HTML documentation. However, the GUI is easy to use, I never needed to look into the documentation. Mind you, I am assuming it does a decent job of following the x509 style guide and gets certificate requests and CAs right. If it doesn't, it is actively harmful and should not be accepted at all. I don't know about x509 style guide, I'll look into it. Upstream looks just as dead as tinyca2, and that is a MAJOR point against it. Yes, the last upstream version is from 2007. But the author is working on 0.7, the last commit in the git repisitory[1] is from March 3rd. I also know the author in person. My packaging is already finished and lintian-clean, and I have a sponsor, too. I'm waiting for the author to include 2 small patches and release a 0.7 version Regards, Tino [1] http://git.hohnstaedt.de/xca.git -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#519003: ITP: xca -- x509 Certification Authority management tool based on QT4
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Tino Keitel tino.keitel+debb...@tikei.de * Package name: xca Version : 0.6.4 Upstream Author : Name christ...@hohnstaedt.de * URL : http://xca.sourceforge.net/ * License : BSD Programming Lang: C++ Description : x509 Certification Authority management tool based on QT4 XCA creates and manages certificate authorities and helps the user to create and manage keys, certificates, certificate sign requests, certificate revocation lists etc. . All data is saved in an encrypted, portable database, and can be exported in various standard formats. XCA is also available for MacOS X and Windows systems. . For a good workflow, certificate templates can be defined to make the creation of new certificates an easy task. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Bug#519003: ITP: xca -- x509 Certification Authority management tool based on QT4
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tino Keitel wrote: * Package name: xca Description : x509 Certification Authority management tool based on QT4 Is there anything significant that distinguishes this from TinyCA? Cheers, Marcus -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkm1h5cACgkQXjXn6TzcAQmvjwCfXYKtIRBgccuS2MAwH5Hn44kM BkYAoJ669C/cQYFoN74PrP0yN0o8t3MZ =bY3K -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Bug#519003: ITP: xca -- x509 Certification Authority management tool based on QT4
I demand that Marcus Better may or may not have written... Tino Keitel wrote: * Package name: xca Description : x509 Certification Authority management tool based on QT4 Is there anything significant that distinguishes this from TinyCA? Other than it not being GTK-based? I can imagine that being enough for some... -- | Darren Salt| linux or ds at | nr. Ashington, | Toon | RISC OS, Linux | youmustbejoking,demon,co,uk | Northumberland | Army | + Burn less waste. Use less packaging. Waste less. USE FEWER RESOURCES. The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Bug#519003: ITP: xca -- x509 Certification Authority management tool based on QT4
On Mon, Mar 09, 2009 at 22:18:15 +0100, Marcus Better wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tino Keitel wrote: * Package name: xca Description : x509 Certification Authority management tool based on QT4 Is there anything significant that distinguishes this from TinyCA? XCA has more flexible template support, whereas TinyCA2 seems to be limited to client, server and CA templates. Furthermore, XCA uses QT instead of GTK. Regards, Tino -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Bug#519003: ITP: xca -- x509 Certification Authority management tool based on QT4
On Mon, 09 Mar 2009, Tino Keitel wrote: On Mon, Mar 09, 2009 at 22:18:15 +0100, Marcus Better wrote: * Package name: xca Description : x509 Certification Authority management tool based on QT4 Is there anything significant that distinguishes this from TinyCA? XCA has more flexible template support, whereas TinyCA2 seems to be limited to client, server and CA templates. Furthermore, XCA uses QT instead of GTK. If XCA has _any_ documentation at all, it is already better than TinyCA2 in something. Mind you, I am assuming it does a decent job of following the x509 style guide and gets certificate requests and CAs right. If it doesn't, it is actively harmful and should not be accepted at all. Upstream looks just as dead as tinyca2, and that is a MAJOR point against it. -- One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie. -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
