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diff --git a/external/nss/README b/external/nss/README index 6997cea6ca..09931f64ea 100644 --- a/external/nss/README +++ b/external/nss/README @@ -1,5 +1,16 @@ Contains the Network Security Services (NSS) libraries from Mozilla +== ESR versions == + +Upstream releases both regular and "ESR" versions, the latter go into Firefox +ESR and Thunderbird. + +There is a new ESR version about once a year, and a ESR version gets micro +updates only when there are security issues to fix, and it's not always obvious +from the release notes of a regular release if there are security issues that +are relevant to LibreOffice, hence it's probably best to bundle only the ESR +versions and upgrade for every micro release (as recommended by upstream). + == Fips 140 and signed libraries == Fips 140 mode is not supported. That is, the *.chk files containing the @@ -20,18 +31,3 @@ With all supported macOS SDK we use NSS_USE_SYSTEM_SQLITE=1 to build using the system sqlite. -== system NSS on Linux == - -Note that different Linux distributions use different SONAMEs for the -NSS libraries, so it is not possible to use --with-system-nss and build -a portable generic LO installation set, despite NSS upstream apparently -maintaining ABI compatibility. - -Debian Squeeze: -0x000000000000000e (SONAME) Library soname: [libnss3.so.1d] -Fedora 20: -0x000000000000000e (SONAME) Library soname: [libnss3.so] - -For the record, the LSB specified SONAME is libnss3.so -http://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/LSB_4.1.0/LSB-Core-generic/LSB-Core-generic/libnss3.html - |