Using the same nss in all suites
Hi,
Backporting fixes for nss can become a challenge over time due to:
* Bugs related to MFAs (often containing test cases) being restricted so
one can only look at hg and try to find all the relevant commits.
* The library has rather frequent security updates
* The code diverges over the years
I haven't found an explicit statement about ABI stability on the nss
site but RedHat and others seem to be doing fine with always using the
latest version in all suites and I wonder if we should do the same. This
would probably include updating the nspr dependency from time to time
too.
I wonder what's the maintainers and security teams stance on this?
Should we do this? Should we start with this during Jessie? If so I
would be happy to prepare packages for the different distributions and
do some testing.
Cheers,
-- Guido
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