Re: Bug#990059: Bug#989839: Thunderbird 1:78.11.0-1 in testing lacks full functionality

[Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>]

On Mon, Jul 05, 2021 at 07:57:30AM +0900, Mike Hommey wrote:
> reopen 990059
> affects 990059 firefox-esr firefox libcurl3-nss
> thanks
> 
> On Sat, Jun 19, 2021 at 09:00:13AM +0200, Carsten Schoenert wrote:
> > Hello Kevin, hello Sebastian,
> > 
> > thanks for working on this issue in between times, I wasn't able to do
> > anything practically the last days.
> > 
> > Am 18.06.21 um 23:31 schrieb Kevin Locke:
> > > Hi Sebastian,
> > > 
> > > On Fri, 2021-06-18 at 22:26 +0200, Sebastian Ramacher wrote:
> > >> Thanks for this detailed analysis. That actually means that the symbol
> > >> file for libnss3 2:3.67-1 is broken. It would need to bump the minimum
> > >> version requirement for all symbols that works with SSLChannelInfo. From
> > >> your description, at least the version for SSL_GetChannelInfo would need
> > >> to be bumped. If thunderbird would then be built against a libnss3
> > >> version with a fixed symbol files, it would pick up tight enought
> > >> dependencies.
> > >>
> > >> So ideally the bug against thunderbird would be reassigned to libnss3
> > >> 2:3.67-1 and its severits raised to serious. Once fixed, we can rebuild
> > >> thunderbird to pick up the correct depedencies.
> > > 
> > > Good point.  Fixing the libnss3 symbol file sounds like the right fix to
> > > me.  As far as I can tell SSL_GetChannelInfo is the only symbol which
> > > takes SSLChannelInfo.  I've opened https://bugs.debian.org/990058 with
> > > the proposed fix.
> > 
> > Fixing libnss3 is obviously the correct thing anyway. But this will take
> > its time to get it landed into bullseye.
> > 
> > >> But since that version of libnss3 is not in bullseye, the rebuild would
> > >> not be abile to migrate. Ideally libnss3 would be reverted to the
> > >> version in bullseye to avoid this issue. Otherwise I can schedule
> > >> binNMUs of thunderbird in tpu, but that means that we would need to do
> > >> that for any thunderbird upload that we want in bullseye until the
> > >> release. That is suboptimal - it's more work with less testing.
> > > 
> > > That may be tricky.  firefox 88.0.1-1 in unstable depends on
> > > libnss3 (>= 2:3.63~).  If the maintainers are willing to upload an NSS
> > > version between 2:3.63 and 2:3.65, I believe that would solve the issue
> > > without breaking firefox.  (2:3.63-1 is the only suitable version
> > > in debian/changelog.)  I've opened https://bugs.debian.org/990059 to
> > > discuss.
> > 
> > To prevent quite a lot of work on all involved parties with not that
> > much gain in the end I'd suggest to go back to my option B that was to
> > (re)build Thunderbird with it's internal shipped NSS version.
> 
> Unfortunately, this affects more than Thunderbird. It also affects
> Firefox ESR (although not on amd64 because for some reason it was built
> against an older version of NSS, but it affects other architectures). It
> also affects the latest upload of curl.

It also affects openjdk-17, openjdk-8 and pcp in sid, if they're ever
meant to transition to testing (which, from the look of it, is probably
not the case).

Mike