Bug#824872: jessie-pu: package nspr/2:4.12-2+deb8u1
Hi Julien,
On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 11:46:06AM +0200, Julien Cristau wrote:
> 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.
The "other kind of bugs" were the reason why I enabled the test suites
in nss/nspr and started to add some autpkg tests. What else would you
expect?
We could also add (and run) autopkg tests for reverse dependencies of
nss/nspr over time.
Cheers,
-- Guido
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