Bug#1004739: ITP: mozjs91 -- SpiderMonkey JavaScript library

[Jeremy Bicha <jeremy.bicha@canonical.com>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org
Owner: jeremy.bicha@canonical.com

Package Name: mozjs91
Version: 91.5.1
Upstream Author: Mozilla et al
License: MPL-2.0+ etc
Programming Lang: C++

Description: SpiderMonkey JavaScript library
 SpiderMonkey is the code-name for Mozilla Firefox's C++ implementation of
 JavaScript. It is intended to be embedded in other applications
 that provide host environments for JavaScript.
 .
 This library is intended for use in contexts where only trusted
 JavaScript code will be run, such as GNOME's gjs, Cinnamon's cjs, and
 polkit's rules parsing. It should not be used to run untrusted JavaScript
 from web pages: use a security-supported implementation such as Firefox,
 Chrome or WebKitGTK's JavaScriptCore instead.

Other Info
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This library will be maintained by the Debian GNOME team. Packaging is at
https://salsa.debian.org/gnome-team/mozjs

Spidermonkey/mozjs is the JavaScript library from Firefox ESR. gjs in
GNOME 42 is switching from mozjs78 to mozjs91 now that Firefox 78 ESR
has reached End of Life.

Besides GNOME, the only other user of the mozjs78 package in Debian is
Cinnamon. It is hoped that Cinnamon will be able to switch to mozjs91
soon too.

https://discourse.gnome.org/t/spidermonkey-91/8665

Thanks,
Jeremy Bicha