Re: 03/03: gnu: nss, nss-certs: Update to 3.27.2.

[Mark H Weaver]

address@hidden (Leo Famulari) writes:

> lfam pushed a commit to branch master
> in repository guix.
>
> commit 7ab3ea426640e4e7ae798a8f72b3c90b383cb824
> Author: Leo Famulari <address@hidden>
> Date:   Tue Dec 13 18:59:50 2016 -0500
>
>     gnu: nss, nss-certs: Update to 3.27.2.
>     
>     * gnu/packages/gnuzilla.scm (nss): Update to 3.27.2.
>     * gnu/packages/certs.scm (nss-certs): Update to 3.27.2.

Thanks for this, but unfortunately this version of 'nss' seems to
consistently fail its test suite on armhf, or at least it has failed 3
times in a row.

  https://hydra.gnu.org/build/1712083

Given the importance of the proper functioning of this package, I'm not
comfortable disabling the tests.

Do we have reason to believe that this update fixes security flaws?  Is
there a compelling reason not to revert this update until a version is
released that passes the test suite on our supported systems?

     Thanks,
       Mark