Bug#878362: mozjs52: embedded code copy: icu v58

[Jeremy Bicha]

On Fri, Oct 13, 2017 at 3:54 AM, Simon McVittie <smcv at debian.org> wrote:
> mozjs52 has an embedded code copy of libicu. (The same is true for
> firefox-esr and firefox.) It is newer than the current system copy,
> so it is not necessarily safe to stop using it right now.
>
> When icu >= 58 reaches testing/unstable (#878359), mozjs52 can hopefully
> depend on it as a system library instead, closing this bug in the process.

Ubuntu developers would like to update gjs/mozjs in Ubuntu LTS
releases. Because new versions of icu bump the soname and there are a
lot of reverse depends, it looks like Ubuntu LTS won't be able to use
the system icu library.

I mention this because it might make sense for Debian to also update
gjs/mozjs in stable releases.

Thanks,
Jeremy