Consider packaging libmozjs185-dev?
Hi,
I'm currently attempting to package 0 A.D., an open-source RTS game, for Debian, with the help of the Debian Games team. However, a potential problem is that 0 A.D. bundles Spidermonkey with the rest of the source code, and a discussion took place in the Debian Games' mailing list on how to resolve this. One of 0 A.D.'s developers has followed our discussion and offered his stance on the issue [1], noting that Spidermonkey releases often break compatibility with older releases, and that 0 A.D. relies on a specific version of Spidermonkey (1.8.5 [2]); porting it to a newer version could be more trouble than it would be worth.
I would like to ask whether the Debian Mozilla team is able/willing to package and/or maintain this specific version of Spidermonkey (in the form of a new package, e.g. libmozjs185-dev); I would be glad to assist in any way possible, given that 0 A.D. relies on this. The only other alternative (besides asking upstream to just port 0 A.D. to a newer version of Spidemonkey) would be to embed Spidermonkey code in 0 A.D.'s source tarball, which probably isn't the preferred course of action.
Kind regards,
- Vincent Cheng
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