Mozilla codebase releases 1.8.1.2 and 1.8.0.10

Mike Hommey mh at glandium.org
Sun Feb 25 17:50:45 CET 2007


On Sun, Feb 25, 2007 at 03:56:11PM +0100, Alexander Sack <asac at debian.org> wrote:
> > The only thing I can tell to reassure you is that NSPR and NSS have
> > strong ABI stability requirements, since they are used by closed-source
> > products such as SunOne, so we're probably safe here. OTOH, NSS added
> > some new stuff (such as libfreebl) that may need some care to not mess
> > with, especially on xulrunner, but I've had to deal with it with
> > iceweasel so that's not a big surprise.
> 
> ... I remember discussion about the NSS migration; it was assured that
> NSS has hard ABI compatibility requirements. So do we really have
> problems with NSS in xulrunner or not?

Besides potentially introducing packaging bugs, no. Hopefully, there is
still time before the release for the obvious bugs to be caught.
Also, the RMs being the ones to review the debdiffs, it's their choice ;)

Mike




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