What should we do with iceweasel/xulrunner/libmozjs?

[Mike Hommey]

On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 11:56:49AM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Le vendredi 13 mai 2011 à 09:19 +0200, Mike Hommey a écrit : 
> > However, by the time wheezy is released, Firefox will have had several
> > new releases. And the current embedding API (gtkembedmoz) has already been
> > removed from Firefox 5.0, coming in a few weeks. We're obviously not
> > going to maintain xulrunner 1.9.1 or 1.9.2 forever, so at some point,
> > things relying on gtkembedmoz will have to either contribute to mozilla
> > to get a new embedding API that works better for them (it would be about
> > time), or die. Waiting for that to happen, the only solution forward is
> > IMHO to remove packages using gtkembedmoz.
> 
> Agreed.
> 
> > Packages relying on xulrunner-dev to build plugins should still be fine,
> > though. As for libmozjs, the API is a fast moving target, and AFAIK,
> > only a few packages such as gjs are following the trend. Others should
> > probably die too.
> 
> As for libmozjs, GNOME has 2 reverse deps: gjs and libproxy. 
> 
> There has been talk to remove gjs from GNOME and focus on seed, I think
> it will happen around GNOME 3.4 - in time for wheezy, but we need to
> keep it working in the meantime.
> 
> As for libproxy, we’re waiting for JSCore to be split out of webkit -
> this has happened in git master already. Once this is done, we can make
> JSCore a hard dependency for libproxy and remove spidermonkey support.

Any insight from the release team?

Should I stop caring, upload 4.0.1 to unstable, and whatever breaks will
have to be dealt with by either removing or fixing?

Mike