Public bug reported: GNOME Shell and several GNOME apps are written in JavaScript and use Mozilla's SpiderMonekey JavaScript engine via gjs.
GNOME 3.22 uses mozjs24. GNOME 3.23.4 now uses mozjs31. There is a proposal for GNOME to switch to mozjs38 before 3.24 is released, hopefully in time for 3.23.90 next week. See https://bugzilla.gnome.org/777962 and https://bugzilla.gnome.org/776966 This switch is important because the SpiderMonkey releases correspond with Firefox releases which include security updates. The current mozjs24 corresponds with 24.2 released December 2013. The current Firefox ESR is 45.7 but the latest Spidermonkey release is 45.0.2 from April 2016: https://developer.mozilla.org/en- US/docs/Mozilla/Projects/SpiderMonkey/Releases/45 This will add a 3rd version of mozjs to Ubuntu 17.04 but the goal is to drop mozjs24 in 17.10. The ancient original mozjs package in particular is used by couchdb which has found it difficult to use more recent mozjs versions. $ reverse-depends src:mozjs * couchdb-bin (for libmozjs185-1.0) * gxine (for libmozjs185-1.0) * libproxy1-plugin-mozjs (for libmozjs185-1.0) * oolite (for libmozjs185-1.0) $ reverse-depends src:mozjs24 Reverse-Depends =============== * cinnamon (for libmozjs-24-0v5) * edbrowse (for libmozjs-24-0v5) * gnome-shell (for libmozjs-24-0v5) * libcjs-dev (for libmozjs-24-dev) * libcjs0 (for libmozjs-24-0v5) * libgjs-dev (for libmozjs-24-dev) * libgjs0e (for libmozjs-24-0v5) $ reverse-depends src:gjs Reverse-Recommends ================== * python-pocket-lint (for gjs) Reverse-Depends =============== * gnome-characters (for gjs) * gnome-documents (for gjs) * gnome-maps (for gjs) * gnome-shell (for libgjs0e) * gnome-shell (for gjs) * gnome-sound-recorder (for gjs) * gnome-sushi (for libgjs0e) * gnome-weather (for gjs) * ostree-tests (for gjs) * polari (for gjs) * ubuntu-budgie-desktop (for gjs) * ubuntu-gnome-desktop (for gjs) * unity-webapps-dev (for gjs) mozjs38 will be maintained in Debian possibly by the mozjs24 maintainer once GNOME 3.24 is packaged. ** Affects: ubuntu Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: needs-packaging upgrade-software-version -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1662094 Title: [needs-packaging] mozjs38, Mozilla's SpiderMonkey JavaScript engine To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/1662094/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
