> Am 17.08.2016 um 16:58 schrieb Jeremy Linton <jeremy.lin...@arm.com>:
> 
> Hi,
> 
>> On 08/17/2016 09:51 AM, Koen Kooi wrote:
>> 
>>> Op 17 aug. 2016, om 16:39 heeft Leif Lindholm <leif.lindh...@linaro.org> 
>>> het volgende geschreven:
>>> 
>>> Hi all,
>>> 
>>> (Sent to cross-distro with debian-arm on cc.)
>>> 
>>> We have an 'interesting' situation ahead of us, or indeed some of us
>>> have already fallen into it:
> 
> (trimming)
> 
>>> The applications we know are affected are luajit and mozjs (libv8 is
>>> not a problem). But this has a follow-on cost: both of these are used
>>> by other packages. Other jit/runtime packages could have their own
>>> issues.
>>> 
>>> The mozjs bug is fixed on trunk, and will hopefully make it into
>>> release 49[2], but it remains to be seen if that's too late for some
>>> distributions.
>> 
>> Since mozjs is “special” when it comes to API, you have to depend on a 
>> specific version of it, so policykit hard-depends on mozjs17, which has no 
>> fixes available for the VA problem :( I’ve seen reports of systems unable to 
>> boot because of the systemd->polkit->mozjs chain. Is anyone working on 
>> fixing that?
> 
> Special, might be an understatement.
> 
> But for polkit, I've posted patches pulling it forward to mozjs24 (needs 
> testing!)

Given that mozjs24 is out of upstream support for quite some time now, wouldn't 
it make more sense to port it to something more recent?


Alex


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