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Re: Using the same nss upstream version in all suites?



On 2016-04-08 10:15:02, Julien Cristau wrote:
> On Thu, Apr  7, 2016 at 16:15:36 -0400, anarcat wrote:
>
>> It would also make sense NSS is basically part of Firefox, which *has*
>> the same version in all suites.
>> 
> That's a weird argument.  nss is a library, firefox isn't.  Unless
> you're arguing for removing all nss rdeps just as happened a few years
> ago to xulrunner rdeps, but then why have an nss package at all.

I am not arguing for removing all the NSS rdeps, of course. My point is
more that the NSS library seems to be more or less ABI stable across
releases - Chromium 49 seems to use the 3.14 in Jessie and 3.17 in Sid
without any ill effects...

But maybe I'm missing something obvious here.

A.

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