Bug#503926: epiphany-gecko: Needs to be rebuilt _every_ time xulrunner is updated

[Mike Hommey]

On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 10:57:25AM +0000, Sam Morris <sam at robots.org.uk> wrote:
> Package: epiphany-gecko
> Version: 2.22.3-6
> Severity: serious
> 
> I ran into a crash which I filed upstream:
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=557747
> 
> Upstream marked it as a dupe of
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=535883 which is resolved NOTGNOME.
> Upstream says the crash happens because Epiphany was run against an old version
> of xulrunner. Apparently, Epiphany has to be rebuilt every time xulrunner is
> updated. :(

No it doesn't, the proof lies in the details: 2.22.3-6 has been built
against xulrunner 1.9.0.3-1. What it needs, though is to be rebuilt
when the xpcomglue changes, and it will change in version 1.9.0.3-2.
Note that the change that will occur may fix your crash, as it touches
nsThreadUtils.

Mike