Hi all, currently we build gjs, which contains the JS bindings required to run gnome-shell, against the libmozjs version shipped by iceweasel. This requires a bit of hackery, especially because libmozjs changes every 3 months, but it works and it allows to have only one libmozjs version in the archive. However, recently upstream made it clear that such a setup is absolutely not supported, and they will not even try to fix bugs reported from Debian systems.
They now use a snapshot of an older libmozjs, called libmozjs185, to build gjs against. This snapshot has a bit of upstream support itself, and is designed to be parallel-installable. Most other distributions have given up and started to use it. Eventually gnome-shell might migrate to using seed, which would solve these issues by using libjavascriptcore instead, but this is probably for wheezy+1, so we need a solution for wheezy. What would you all think about packaging libmozjs185 and use it in Debian too? Of course this code duplication makes long-term security support more complicated. Thanks, -- .''`. Josselin Mouette : :' : `. `' `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1324564132.6176.252.camel@pi0307572
