Combine several small PRs for issue #1316 and their NEWS entries #1723

Job	Run time
Analyze (cpp, ubuntu-latest, CC=gcc CXX=g++, no, no)	4m 44s
Analyze (cpp, ubuntu-latest, CC=gcc CXX=g++, no, libusb-1.0)	5m 3s
Analyze (cpp, ubuntu-latest, CC=gcc CXX=g++, no, libusb-0.1)	5m 4s
Analyze (cpp, ubuntu-latest, CC=gcc CXX=g++, nss, no)	4m 50s
Analyze (cpp, ubuntu-latest, CC=gcc CXX=g++, nss, libusb-1.0)	5m 21s
Analyze (cpp, ubuntu-latest, CC=gcc CXX=g++, nss, libusb-0.1)	5m 5s
Analyze (cpp, ubuntu-latest, CC=gcc CXX=g++, openssl, no)	4m 47s
Analyze (cpp, ubuntu-latest, CC=gcc CXX=g++, openssl, libusb-1.0)	5m 35s
Analyze (cpp, ubuntu-latest, CC=gcc CXX=g++, openssl, libusb-0.1)	4m 57s
Analyze (cpp, ubuntu-latest, CC=clang CXX=clang++, no, no)	4m 49s
Analyze (cpp, ubuntu-latest, CC=clang CXX=clang++, no, libusb-1.0)	5m 7s
Analyze (cpp, ubuntu-latest, CC=clang CXX=clang++, no, libusb-0.1)	4m 52s
Analyze (cpp, ubuntu-latest, CC=clang CXX=clang++, nss, no)	5m 10s
Analyze (cpp, ubuntu-latest, CC=clang CXX=clang++, nss, libusb-1.0)	4m 36s
Analyze (cpp, ubuntu-latest, CC=clang CXX=clang++, nss, libusb-0.1)	5m 51s
Analyze (cpp, ubuntu-latest, CC=clang CXX=clang++, openssl, no)	4m 22s
Analyze (cpp, ubuntu-latest, CC=clang CXX=clang++, openssl, libusb-1.0)	5m 38s
Analyze (cpp, ubuntu-latest, CC=clang CXX=clang++, openssl, libusb-0.1)	5m 39s
Analyze (python, ubuntu-latest, PYTHON=python3, no, no)	46s
	1h 32m 16s

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