On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 02:49:57PM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: >On 11/29/2017 02:36 PM, Ludovic Rousseau wrote: >> I am the new Debian maintainer of 0ad (a video game). >> Since 0ad version alpha 22 (0.0.22 in Debian) the software fails to build on >> arm64. >> The build logs are at >> https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=0ad&arch=arm64&ver=0.0.22-1&stamp=1508351579&raw=0 >> >> The build error is related to mozjs-38.0.0 patched and embedded in 0ad: > >mozjs is a security-relevant library. It shouldn't be embedded into 0ad. >Rather, >you should link against any of the mozjs versions packaged and available in >Debian. The security team will certainly not be happy about your embedded copy >of a Javascript engine and they might as you to fix this issue or your package >gets removed from testing.
Nod. >> I have no time to work on this bug. I am not sure if many people will ever >> play 0ad on arm64 :-) >> For now support of arm64 has been removed. > >That's not how we usually fix bugs in Debian. Agreed. It would be lovely to see some efforts to clean up mess like this in the javascript world. It takes a lot of effort to port to new architectures, but due to awful API/ABI practices there are embedded (out-of-date, buggy and insecure) copies all over the place. :-( -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. [email protected] You lock the door And throw away the key There's someone in my head but it's not me
