Bug#619059: ITP: libmozilla-ca-perl -- Mozilla's CA cert bundle in PEM format

[Nicholas Bamber]

Package: wnpp
Owner: Nicholas Bamber nicho...@periapt.co.uk
Severity: wishlist
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* Package name: libmozilla-ca-perl
  Version : 20110301
  Upstream Author : Gisle Aas gi...@activestate.com
* URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Mozilla-CA/
* License : MPL-1.1 or GPL-2+ or LGPL-2.1+
  Programming Lang: Perl
  Description : Mozilla's CA cert bundle in PEM format

Mozilla::CA provides a copy of Mozilla's bundle of Certificate Authority
certificates in a form that can be consumed by modules and libraries 
based on

OpenSSL.



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Re: Bug#619059: ITP: libmozilla-ca-perl -- Mozilla's CA cert bundle in PEM format

[brian m. carlson]

On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 09:26:07PM +, Nicholas Bamber wrote:
 * Package name: libmozilla-ca-perl
   Version : 20110301
   Upstream Author : Gisle Aas gi...@activestate.com
 * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Mozilla-CA/
 * License : MPL-1.1 or GPL-2+ or LGPL-2.1+
   Programming Lang: Perl
   Description : Mozilla's CA cert bundle in PEM format
 
 Mozilla::CA provides a copy of Mozilla's bundle of Certificate Authority
 certificates in a form that can be consumed by modules and libraries
 based on
 OpenSSL.

Is this really appropriate for Debian's purposes?  I would think that
using ca-certificates is probably better since not only are the
certificates already in PEM format but the administrator can choose to
add, remove, enable, or disable certificates in one central place.

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