Re: Bug#608719: Debian Policy about administrator X.509 certificate stores [was: Re: dovecot-common: please do not use /etc/ssl/certs for end-entity X.509 certificates (/etc/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem)]

To: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Cc: "Jaldhar H. Vyas" <jaldhar@debian.org>, 608719@bugs.debian.org, Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>, debian-policy@lists.debian.org, ca-certificates@packages.debian.org, Michael Shuler <michael@pbandjelly.org>, Dovecot Maintainers <jaldhar-dovecot@debian.org>
Subject: Re: Bug#608719: Debian Policy about administrator X.509 certificate stores [was: Re: dovecot-common: please do not use /etc/ssl/certs for end-entity X.509 certificates (/etc/ssl/certs/dovecot.pem)]
From: Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net>
Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2012 10:47:47 -0300
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On 05/30/2012 07:34 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> Since we don't seem to have a specific directory for server
> certificates, I suppose it should be under /etc/dovecot.

If anyone following this bug report is coming to debconf12, i've
submitted a BoF proposal to try to get together and hammer out some best
practices we can document for today (and hopefully shift into policy for
wheezy+1 or thereabouts).

	--dkg

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