The problem is there is no longer a libmozjs package for xulrunner-1.9 and up. The version you see if from xulrunner-1.8
On 01/03/2010 07:25 AM, Brian Candler wrote: > More specifically: the runtime package xulrunner-1.9.1 may today contain > /usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.1.5/libmozjs.so, but tomorrow may contain > /usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.1.6/libmozjs.so. So any application built against > the first (e.g. using LD_RUN_PATH) will stop working when xulrunner is > upgraded. > > xulrunner will be a suitable production replacement for libmozjs when > it's installed in a stable location, preferably under /usr/lib. > > In the mean time: libmozjs.so from the libmozjs package continues to > work just fine. I see no reason to continue the underlying problem > reported here, which is that libmozjs-dev has superfluous conflicts > declared. All this achieves is that it's impossible to install libmozjs- > dev on an ubuntu-desktop machine without uninstalling a load of > important stuff. > > Note that on ubuntu-server, where you typically don't have firefox > installed, libmozjs-dev installs just fine, and you can then build stuff > which links against libmozjs. Such compiled code would then *run* just > fine on an ubuntu-desktop machine, because you can install the libmozjs > package without problems. > > So why declare a conflict on libmozjs-dev but not on libmozjs? > > -- installing libmozjs-dev will remove ... firefox ubuntu-desktop ubuntu-docs xulrunner-1.9.1 and a lot more https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/486079 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
