Bug 618318 is a little bit of a different bug. It doesn't make us 'grow up and become a ral library', but it goes about halfway there in a way which is useful for quite a number of users. Specifically, it:
- packages spidermonkey separately to FF and xulrunner. - adds a major version number to the .so file, which is updated on API (and ABI as much as we can) changes - allows mozilla to keep making incompatible changes, with a new .so number - allows distributions to backport changes if they wish (in which case they would update the minor version number). - only adds a tiny burden to mozilla (remember to increase the number of API changes, and aspirationally ABI changes). It doesn't do everything distros would like (too high a burden on us), but it makes the world nicer for users. I propose we WONTFIX this bug, and move our attention to bug 618318. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/286906 Title: provide and support a top-level library package for libmozjs (Was: Unable to use libmozjs.so in an application, because of library path problem.) -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
