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[Adrian Bunk <bunk@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 01:18:46PM +0200, Torsten Werner wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 12:42 PM, Adrian Bunk <bunk@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > these bugs ("java.security.ProviderException: Could not initialize NSS")
> > and ("SSL connections fail: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsoftokn3.so
> > does not exist") sounds like #641305, which I reported yesterday against
> > ca-certificates-java, and which Torsten fixed immediately.
> 
> if have fixed the nss workaround in ca-certificates-java which has
> been there for a while but was broken. But I did not fix the JRE
> itself. I think the nss.cfg file needs to be updated.

Thanks for that information.

What would be a non-workaround solution that:
- is stable and doesn't break in the future and
- works with both stable and unstable and
- also finds the correct NSS libraries in multi-arch setups with 
  different arch versions of NSS installed? [1]
?

> Cheers,
> Torsten

cu
Adrian

[1] I think your workaround might fail in such situations.

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