On Fri, Oct 13, 2017 at 3:54 AM, Simon McVittie <[email protected]> wrote: > mozjs52 has an embedded code copy of libicu. (The same is true for > firefox-esr and firefox.) It is newer than the current system copy, > so it is not necessarily safe to stop using it right now. > > When icu >= 58 reaches testing/unstable (#878359), mozjs52 can hopefully > depend on it as a system library instead, closing this bug in the process.
Ubuntu developers would like to update gjs/mozjs in Ubuntu LTS releases. Because new versions of icu bump the soname and there are a lot of reverse depends, it looks like Ubuntu LTS won't be able to use the system icu library. I mention this because it might make sense for Debian to also update gjs/mozjs in stable releases. Thanks, Jeremy
