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firefox-esr-68: drop #97612
firefox-esr-68: drop #97612
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Sounds good to me.
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Either this or just mark it as insecure for now. I'm not aware for any particular reasons to keep 68 around a bit longer (as insecure), unlike the situation that was with 52 for example. |
Why was 52 kept around? Also, this is the only use of |
Quantum certainly did have some unpleasant consequences, but it's probably best to refer to past threads like #45787 |
78 has its own branch of nss upstream (3.53), so I don't see why keep 3.44 without FF 68. |
BTW, Thunderbird will be an interesting story, as even today's 78 version isn't considered good enough to be default (by upstream) and 68 surely won't be supported for the whole 20.09 cycle. |
@ajs124 would you mind also adding the following patch:
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Right, I forgot even though posting about both Thunderbird and this NSS version :-/ IIRC it did fail with newer NSS, meaning we can't drop it just yet. |
Ooof, well in that case we'd need to drop the |
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/cc @NixOS/nixos-release-managers for the 20.09 implications. (Say, in case they only want FF to be marked as insecure in 20.09.) With Thunderbird there seems to be not much choice ATM. |
Thx, I approve of this PR and marked it as blocker. |
(cherry picked from commit 544c8db)
Motivation for this change
Upstream EOL. This also needs a backport to 20.09, because we missed the branch-off on this.
Things done
sandbox
innix.conf
on non-NixOS linux)nix-shell -p nixpkgs-review --run "nixpkgs-review wip"
./result/bin/
)nix path-info -S
before and after)