Public bug reported:
The release of a new mozjs library should be happening later this month,
which will be based of the Firefox esr17 engine. Atleast with respect to
gnome-shell the new release fixes lots of leaks and Garbabe Collector
(GC) deadlocks. Since this would be good to get this update into raring,
creating this as a tracking bug.
Gjs 1.35 has been ported (which should land upstream before gnome freeze
mid Feb) and I have tested this against both gnome-shell 3.6 and 3.7,
there are significant improvements in memory usage, and I have not seen
a single GC deadlock.
Currently none of the other rdepends have been ported as far as I know,
and its probably not realistic to get all of them ported before the
Ubuntu freeze. There are quite a lot of trivial API changes between
mozjs185 and 188, although most are picked up by compiler errors or seg
faults. A large portion of the work could be done by some compatibility
defines and some sed magic, however the end results is quite a large
diff, so probably not something that would want to carry as a distro
patch. As such, atleast for the short-term would probably need to have a
transition period with both versions available.
Reverse Depends:
libgjs0c
gnome-shell (will just require rebuild)
oolite
gxine
gnome-shell
dehydra
couchdb-bin
cinnamon (will just require rebuild)
0ad (I believe upstream want to go straight to FF18)
One last thing is that the soname format will probably change to
libmozjs-17.0.so (i.e. Firefox versioning).
** Affects: mozjs (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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update to new mozjs188 library
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