Bug#1130768: use the libjs-pdf package instead of in-tree bundled blobs

[Alberto Garcia]

On Sat, Mar 14, 2026 at 10:21:58PM +0000, John Scott wrote:

> Debian has a libjs-pdf package already, and by using that any doubt
> about the wholesomeness of these bundled sources can be alleviated.
> The contents of /usr/share/javascript/pdf/ look like they correspond
> to this WebKit subdirectory.

Talking to one the upstream WebKitGTK developers I saw that the
version of PDF.js shipped by Debian (2.14.305, from 2022) is quite
outdated compared to the one shipped by WebKit (4.1.392, 2024), so
this would be a downgrade.

In this situation I don't think that this is a good idea.

Berto