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Subject: Re: [dev-tech-crypto] A major cleanup effort for NSPR, new
major release version 5
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2026 10:22:00 -0500 (EST)
From: Paul Wouters <[email protected]>
To: Lars Eggert <[email protected]>
CC: Kai Engert <[email protected]>, Simon Josefsson <[email protected]>,
[email protected]
On Mon, 19 Jan 2026, 'Lars Eggert' via [email protected] wrote:
On Jan 19, 2026, at 16:25, Kai Engert <[email protected]> wrote:
In my understanding, the intention is to remove code and APIs that it no longer
needs in NSPR 5, regardless of other software depending on it.
this. The plan roughly would be to strip any code from NSPR that Gecko isn't
currently using, and support for any platforms that are not currently Gecko
tier platforms.
Note there are other users of NSS/NSPR too, such as libreswan's IKE
stack.
(NSPR hasn't had - IMO - have any meaningful way to test that code and those
platforms for a while now anyway, and I'd rather not ship untested code.)
If other packages depend on the removed code or APIs, a nspr-version-4 package
could be introduced, and those requiring nspr-4 could link to that package,
instead to the most recent version. Or alternatively, they could make
adjustments to avoid the dependencies on the removed code.
This again. I think it would be perfectly reasonable for most current non-Gecko
users of NSPR to remain on version 4.
that's just a bandaid that will fail sometime in the future.
So I am concerned.
Paul
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