Bug#1094999: 0ad: Consider using Debian-provided mozjs instead of the vendored copy

[Vincent Cheng]

On Sun, Feb 2, 2025 at 6:03 AM Antoine Le Gonidec via Pkg-games-devel
<pkg-games-devel at alioth-lists.debian.net> wrote:
>
> On Sun, 2 Feb 2025 13:50:56 +0000 Simon McVittie <smcv at debian.org> wrote:
> > This would likely require someone with an interest in 0ad to take over
> > some or all of the responsibility for mozjs115, (…)
>
> To avoid confusion: you’re not saying that mozjs requires new
> maintenance (this is still the domain of the GNOME team), but that
> mozjs builds older than the most current one (currently mozjs128) are
> not reliable targets for build-dependencies?

Exactly; src:mozjs115 would have already been removed if it weren't
blocked by reverse build-deps, see #1081039.

0ad upstream is not going to be able to track upstream
spidermonkey/mozjs releases at the pace we do in Debian sid, which is
why I opted to use the embedded copy.

Regards,
Vincent