* Guido Günther: > On Thu, Nov 05, 2015 at 09:00:51PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: >> * Mike Hommey: >> > The biggest issue with NSS version bumps is that defaults change, >> > such as cyphers, protocols, etc. That can have unexpected >> > consequences on existing setups. >> >> The typical complaint with NSS is the opposite, tha the defaults do >> not change fast enough. Iceweasel/Mozilla PSM overrides basically all >> the settings, so what you see there does not reflect upstream NSS >> defaults. >> >> (This is a significant concern for Fedora and its downstream because >> of the attempt crypto consolidation to NSS and greater NSS usage >> there.) > > But is this worse than backporting? In this case conservative would be > good for what we want to do.
Yes, for mere backporting of new versions, this can be helpful. Florian
