[Pidgin] #16222: Consider dropping support for either gnutls or libnss

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#16222: Consider dropping support for either gnutls or libnss
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 Reporter:  MarkDoliner                          |       Owner:  EionRobb
     Type:  task                                 |      Status:  new
Milestone:  3.0.0                                |   Component:
  Version:  2.10.9                               |  unclassified
 Keywords:  tls ssl nss libnss gnutls            |  Resolution:
  certificate certificates x509                  |
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Comment (by EionRobb):

 Replying to [comment:3 MarkDoliner]:
 > > we'd have no workaround if there was a fault or security issue in a
 particular library.
 >
 > This isn't something we should be worrying about. If there's a bug in
 the library then we should fix the library. We should not work around
 problems by telling everyone to recompile against a different library.
 Have we provided a fix for gnutls yahoo users yet?
 >
 > > using the system/UI's own SSL libs should help reduce the number of
 external dependencies needed.
 >
 > This is maybe true for Adium and openssl. Are there system/UIs that use
 only gnutls or only libnss?
 Or using SChannel on Win32 (I've started writing a plugin for this)

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