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

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Package: libnss3
Version: 2:3.121-1
Severity: normal
File: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libnssdbm3.so
X-Debbugs-Cc: josh@joshtriplett.org

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


-- System Information:
Debian Release: forky/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: arm64

Kernel: Linux 6.19.10+deb14-amd64 (SMP w/12 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages libnss3:amd64 depends on:
ii  libc6         2.42-14
ii  libnspr4      2:4.38.2-1
ii  libsqlite3-0  3.46.1-9+b1

libnss3:amd64 recommends no packages.

libnss3:amd64 suggests no packages.

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Bug#1133192: Please consider not shipping libnssdbm (or shipping it in a separate deprecated package) Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> - 2026-04-11 00:00 +0200

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