mozjs52_52.2.1-1_amd64.changes REJECTED

[Andreas Henriksson]

Hello Luke Faraone and the rest of the (still named? ;P) FTP Team.

This followup on your rejection mail available at:
http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-gnome-maintainers/2017-August/136005.html

I understand your pain in reviewing this, but was hoping for
some understanding of our situation.

I don't see accepting libmozjs52 despite its inferiour debian/copyright
file as a real problem for Debian. We're already shipping this
bundled in the firefox package and this is where the copyright file
comes from. In other words, firefox is already opening Debian up
for anything by shipping an inferiour copyright file. Rejecting
libmozjs52 for this reason doesn't save Debian from any potential harm.

Noone involved in pkg-gnome really like having to deal with libmozjs at
all and we've tried our best to convince gjs upstream of switching
to something else, but they unfortunately think they need and like
the mozilla extensions. We don't have any volunteers that want to take
on the task of updating debian/copyright, so at the moment we'll just
have to wait until someone updates firefoxes version and copy it over
again. The problem is that we don't know if firefox will ever do that
since they already passed though NEW.

We where aiming for packaging the GNOME 3.26 BETA release so that we
can bring up any issues we find before the final 3.26 release with
upstream. I hope you can relate with everyone reporting minor issues
after we've already shipped a debian stable release. It would be
much better if everyone tested and reported during freeze, right?
Unfortunately this unexpected problem stops us from updating the
core components and since upstream doesn't support mixing versions
(and we don't have the resources to try to reproduce every problem
every user hints at in a vague bug report) we're pretty much stuck.

Is there any way forward for us other than just waiting and praying?

Could you make a compromise given we already ship the same thing
in the archive already?

Regards,
Andreas Henriksson