Re: dropping NSS DBM format support in F33+

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Ankur Sinha <sanjay.ankur@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

>> NSS (the crypto library used by Firefox) historically supports 2
>> database formats: SQLite and DBM.  The latter is considered legacy and
>> we switched the default database format to SQLite in F28[1].  Since then
>> I presume most of the applications have switched to the new format.
>> Therefore we are planning to phase out the support of DBM, targetting
>> F33+.
>> 
>> Please let me know if there is any concern.
>
> I personally don't have any concerns, but perhaps a "self contained
> change" would be good simply to ensure that everyone clearly aware of
> this change?

Thanks Ankur, that makes sense.  I have proposed a change now:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/NSSDBMRemoval

Now that pesign package has been updated to use the new SQLite format,
I'm going to re-disable dbm in the F-33 build soon.

Regards,
-- 
Daiki Ueno
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