Bug#800760: ITP: python-certifi -- collection of Root Certificates for validating the trustworthiness of SSL certificates while verifying the identity of TLS hosts

[Sebastien Delafond <seb@debian.org>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Sebastien Delafond <seb@debian.org>

* Package name    : python-certifi
  Version         : 2015.9.6.2
  Upstream Author : Kenneth Reitz
* URL             : https://certifi.io/en/latest/
* License         : MPL
  Programming Lang: python
  Description     : collection of Root Certificates for validating the trustworthiness of SSL certificates while verifying the identity of TLS hosts

Certifi is a carefully curated collection of Root Certificates for
validating the trustworthiness of SSL certificates while verifying the
identity of TLS hosts. It has been extracted from the Requests
project.



This package is needed for recent netlib/mitmproxy releases (>=
0.13). 

After a discussion in #debian-python, it appeared to make sense to
package this and patch it so its where() function returns the location
where Debian is already providing CA certificates. This will be easier
than having to patch every python package that depends on certifi.