On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 3:55 AM, Brian Smith <bsm...@mozilla.com> wrote: > Mike Hommey wrote: >> But linux users are not necessarily up-to-date with the latest NSS. I >> seriously doubt the number of users with the very last system nss >> exceeds 10% of the linux user base except in exceptional "good >> timing" cases (like when ubuntu is released with the latest version), >> but that doesn't last long). > > If the system NSS isn't new enough, then Firefox's local version of NSS would > be used.
>From a packager point of view, please don't automagically detect these things. If the system NSS is supported provide an option --with-system-nss which if not set will use the bundled NSS. > AFAICT, any distro that ships its own builds of Firefox seems to configure > Firefox to use system NSS and system NSPR, and that effectively means that > those distros have to be on their toes with the latest NSS and NSPR releases > available as installable packages whenever they release a new version of > Firefox, since every version of Firefox going forward will require the very > latest NSS and/or NSPR for the foreseeable future. If this doesn't work for > them then they will have to stop configuring their Firefox packages to depend > on system NSS and/or system NSPR packages. As long as there is a release version of NSS that works with the latest version of Firefox it shouldn't be a problem -- Eitan Adler -- dev-tech-crypto mailing list dev-tech-crypto@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-tech-crypto
