Package: src:chromium-browser Version: 65.0.3325.146-4 Severity: wishlist The chromium source package contains an up-to-date version of the chromium "HSTS preload list". for example:
https://sources.debian.org/src/chromium-browser/65.0.3325.146-4/net/http/transport_security_state_static.json/ Other software besideds chromium can make use of this file to provide users with an up-to-date way to avoid cleartext http connections. It'd be great to ship a copy of this file in a separate debian package, for other packages to depend on. my thought is that it could ship the latest version of transport_security_state_static.json in a package named "hstspreload" somewhere in /usr/share/hstspreload/. Even better would be to use net/tools/dafsa/make_dafsa.py to produce a compact, rapid-access .dafsa binary file that could be loaded and searched rapidly by other software. I believe the dafsa file would be significantly smaller than the .json, so perhaps it should be in its own package, hsts-preload-dafsa. the .dafsa data would be useful for https://gitlab.com/rockdaboot/libhsts, which i'm hoping to package and put into debian. (it has a copy of hsts-make-dafsa, which should be pretty close to chromium's make-dafsa. This package would be equivalent to publicsuffix, dns-root-data, ca-certificates, and tzata -- information about the state of the world or the global network that really should be updated regularly in the same way that we expect packages to be updated. If the chromium maintainers aren't interested in shipping this from the chromium package, i can always make a new hstspreload source package, but i'd prefer to avoid the embedded code copies if we can. let me know what you think! Regards, --dkg -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers testing-debug APT policy: (500, 'testing-debug'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'oldstable'), (200, 'unstable-debug'), (200, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental-debug'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.14.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)