Source: ca-certificates
Section: misc
Priority: optional
-Maintainer: Fumitoshi UKAI <ukai@debian.or.jp>
-Build-Depends-Indep: debhelper (>> 4.1.16), ruby
-Standards-Version: 3.5.9
+Maintainer: Philipp Kern <pkern@debian.org>
+Build-Depends: debhelper (>> 4.1.16), po-debconf
+Build-Depends-Indep: ruby
+Standards-Version: 3.8.0
Package: ca-certificates
Architecture: all
Depends: openssl, ${misc:Depends}
-Enhances: libssl0.9.7, openssl
-Description: Common CA Certificates PEM files
- It includes the followings PEM files of CA certificates
+Enhances: libssl0.9.8, openssl
+Description: Common CA certificates
+ This package includes PEM files of CA certificates to allow SSL-based
+ applications to check for the authenticity of SSL connections.
.
- * spi-inc.org certificate
- * db.debian.org certificate
- * Mozilla builtin CA certificates
- * CACert.org certificates
- * Brazilian Government Certificate
- * Signet CA certificates
- * QuoVadis CA certificates
+ It includes, among others, certificate authorities used by the Debian
+ infrastructure and those shipped with Mozilla's browsers.
.
- This is useful for any openssl applications to verify
- SSL connection.
+ Please note that certificate authorities whose certificates are
+ included in this package are not in any way audited for
+ trustworthiness and RFC 3647 compliance, and that full responsibility
+ to assess them belongs to the local system administrator.
+