#1133192 Please consider not shipping libnssdbm (or shipping it in a separate deprecated package)

Package:
libnss3
Source:
libnss3
Description:
Network Security Service libraries
Submitter:
Josh Triplett
Date:
2026-04-10 21:59:02 UTC
Severity:
normal
#1133192#3
Date:
2026-04-10 21:57:18 UTC
From:
To:
libnssdbm is deprecated upstream (see
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1360778#c8 ), and upstream
recommends using the default sqlite backend instead. The backend has known
issues. According to that link, Firefox itself doesn't use or build it
anymore. We should consider following suit, and making sure nothing in
the distro is using it. (*If* something still is, we should move it to
a deprecated legacy package.)

- Josh Triplett