Bug#747761: xulrunner-dev: ships mozilla-js.pc which is also in libmozjs-dev

[Martin-Éric Racine]

2014-05-11 20:06 GMT+03:00 Rene Engelhard <rene at rene-engelhard.de>:
> Package: xulrunner-dev
> Version: 29.0.1-1
> Severity: serious
>
> Hi,
>
> In my dist-upgrade today:
>
> [...]
> dpkg: Fehler beim Bearbeiten des Archivs /var/cache/apt/archives/xulrunner-dev_29.0.1-1_amd64.deb (--unpack):
>  Versuch, »/usr/lib/pkgconfig/mozilla-js.pc« zu überschreiben, welches auch in Paket libmozjs-dev 24.5.0esr-1 ist
> [...]
>
> Sorry, german, but you should get the idea ("xulrunner-dev contains /usr/lib/pkgconfig/mozilla-js.pc which is also
> in package libmozjs-dev 24.5.0esr-1")
>
> Interestingly there was no libmozjs-dev update.

That's probably because upstream decided to no longer ship a separate
Javascript parser; building the suite with their parser has become
compulsory.

xulrunner-dev probably needs to Conflicts/Provides/Replaces libmozjs-dev

-- Martin-Éric