Bug#855879: Please add blapi.h to libnss3-dev

[Timo Aaltonen]

On 22.02.2017 21:51, Timo Aaltonen wrote:
> Package: libnss3-dev
> Severity: normal
> 
> Hi, I need to package nss-pem for certmonger to actually be able to
> renew certificates, but it fails to build because blapi.h is missing
> from libnss3-dev. Ubuntu has carried it for some time for some reason,
> please add it in Debian too.

adding this is not enough, we're again back to

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=732201

[100%] Linking C shared library libnsspem.so
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lnssckfw
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lnssb
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lfreebl
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status

22:19 < rcrit> tjaalton, ok, what they are asking for in the bug is
never, ever going to happen
22:20 < rcrit> the plan was for nss-pem to be upstreamed into NSS. That
was > 8 years ago
22:21 < rcrit> and that plan is now dead because they are magically
going to rewrite it to be "better" in some way