Re: NSS 3.78.1 ETA

On 5/31/22 8:24 AM, Dennis Jackson wrote:
> Hi Wolfgang, ajs124,
>
> Thank you both for writing to let us know. We will keep the schedule 
> as-is to avoid any breakage then.
>
> Best wishes,
> Dennis


For us (red hat). It's particularly true for ESR, so please don't try to 
Jam 3.80 into Firefox ESR. I've already started the 3.79 integration 
train, in which I have to release 3.79 on several versions of RHEL (with 
various integration issues) in order for our Firefox team to be able to 
pick up the ESR in a timely manner.

Thanks,

bob

(Also it would be good to make sure 
https://wiki.mozilla.org/NSS:Release_Versions is up-to-date).

bob

>
> On Mon, May 30, 2022 at 12:04 PM ajs124 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>     On Mon, 30 May 2022 10:53:00 +0100
>     Dennis Jackson <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>     > Hi Wolfgang,
>     >
>     > There will be an official release tomorrow (same day as Firefox
>     101 ships),
>     > with binaries and a changelog.
>     >
>     > More generally, we are thinking of aligning NSS releases with the
>     > corresponding Firefox release. We're open to feedback if this
>     change would
>     > impact existing workflows?
>
>     This might be/would have been an issue for us at nixpkgs/NixOS,
>     where I
>     co-maintain the nss package.
>
>     Updating nss means a very large rebuild, because unlike regular
>     distributions (as far as I know/remember at least) we rebuild
>     everything
>     once a build input changes. So because e.g. libblockdev depends on
>     nss,
>     we rebuild a few thousand packages for every nss update.
>
>     This would and did sometimes mean delaying Firefox updates. Although
>     now we've split the package into nss_esr and nss_latest. We only use
>     nss_latest for Firefox, Thunderbird and extracting CA certificates
>     from, while nss_esr is used for everything else.
>
>     Maybe some other distros, e.g. GuixSD are in the same boat.
>
>     > Best,
>     > Dennis
>     >
>     > On Sun, May 29, 2022 at 9:25 AM Wolfgang Rosenauer
>     <[email protected]>
>     > wrote:
>     >
>     > > Hi,
>     > >
>     > > seems that Firefox 101 ships with something like NSS 3.78.1 in
>     a few days.
>     > > Will there be an official NSS release ASAP?
>     > >
>     > >
>     > > Thanks,
>     > >  Wolfgang
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