Bug#824872: jessie-pu: package nspr/2:4.12-2+deb8u1
On Sun, May 29, 2016 at 14:58:51 +0200, Guido Günther wrote:
> Upstream has an internal test suite which we enabled for the package
> builds in nspr as well as nss (+ some autopkg smoke test in nss
> itself). Howver I don't know as to what extend ABI compatibility is
> tested upstream. Hopefully Mike (cc:) may have some input on this.
>
> In order get some ideas about ABI compatibility myself I ran
> abi-compliance-tester. The results for both NSS and NSPR are also
> attached. We would do that on all point release updates.
>
> Note that the only (as to my understanding) serious regression has been
> pointed out by Florian as well:
>
> https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts/2015/11/msg00037.html
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1260698
>
> and it's unclear if this part of the ABI. The API break (removal of
> CERT_FindCertURLExtension) is bogus since the symbol was not exported.
>
I don't understand why you seem to be talking about ABI stability
issues. There are other kinds of bugs.
Cheers,
Julien
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