[FFE] Update gjs to 1.78.0 and switch mozjs102 to mozjs115
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| gjs (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
Explanation of FeatureFreeze exception
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gjs 1.78.0 is part of GNOME 45. gjs 1.78 switches from mozjs102 to mozjs115.
mozjs is the SpiderMonkey JavaScript engine from Firefox (ESR). The Firefox 102 ESR branch is no longer supported by Mozilla later this month; 115 is the new Firefox ESR series. We did not finish packaging mozjs115 before Mantic Feature Freeze.
This feature freeze request includes promoting mozjs115 from universe to main and demoting mozjs102 to universe. The only other user of mozjs* in Mantic is cjs, Cinnamon's fork of gjs. Cinnamon will not be ready to switch to mozjs115 in time for Ubuntu 23.10.
As a minor note, we will also need to add mozjs115 to the list of packages to build on i386.
Upstream changes
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Changelog entries since current mantic version 1.76.2-4:
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gjs (1.78.0-0ubuntu1) mantic; urgency=medium
* New upstream release
* Switch from mozjs102 to 115 (LP: #2034276)
* Drop all patches: applied in new release
* debian/
-- Jeremy Bícha Tue, 26 Sep 2023 13:48:35 -0400
Testing Done
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Successful builds for 1.77.90:
https:/
I have successfully completed the manual test case at
https:/
| description: | updated |
| Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote | #1 |
| Changed in gjs (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | New → Incomplete |
| Jeremy Bícha (jbicha) wrote | #2 |
| Changed in gjs (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | Incomplete → New |
| Jeremy Bícha (jbicha) wrote | #3 |
| summary: |
- [FFE] Update gjs to 1.77.90 and switch mozjs102 to mozjs115 + [FFE] Update gjs to 1.78.0 and switch mozjs102 to mozjs115 |
| description: | updated |
| description: | updated |
| tags: | added: update-excuse |
| Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote | #4 |
| Changed in gjs (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | New → Fix Released |
From a maintenance perspective, I think there's not much argument for bumping to mozjs115 despite mozjs102 being EOL, because you say Cinnamon isn't ready to switch and that means the Security Team will still be supporting both (one under ESM). If anything, this appears to mean a net increase in security maintenance work since there will now be two source packages. And we still have 3 months beyond October of security support for mozjs102 in main, via lunar.
In terms of tracking GNOME 45 upstream, this sounds sensible. When is the final gjs 1.78 due out?