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mozjs package

  1. Bug #286906
  2. Comment #42

Comment 42 for bug 286906

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In , Mh+mozilla (mh+mozilla) wrote :

(In reply to comment #23)
> (In reply to comment #21)
>
> > Nothing prevents you to build spidermonkey from firefox and ship it in
> > /usr/lib. That's what we do in Debian, and it has worked for a quite long time.
>
> Sure, though clearly separate tarballs are better.

They also complicate things. See the latest security release (3.5.16/3.6.13), for instance: spidermonkey adds new symbols that xpconnect (in firefox) uses.