Bug#597864: libproxy0 not functional without libmozjs2d

[Emilio Pozuelo Monfort]

On 23/09/10 23:45, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Le jeudi 23 septembre 2010 à 19:55 +0200, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort a
> écrit : 
>> That's not true. libproxy can autodetect the proxy configuration from several
>> places, libmozjs being one of them. But if you don't have it, it can still
>> autodetect it from GConf (for GNOME), some KDE mechanism (I'm not a KDE guy!),
>> your environment, a configuration file... so we don't force anything to be
>> installed, because you most likely have installed something so that libproxy can
>> autodetect the proxy settings.
> 
> libmozjs is necessary to parse JavaScript in proxy.pac files.
> 
> It would be really interesting to build again libproxy with
> Webkit/JavaScriptCore support. The circular dependency loop makes it
> hard, but it avoids this situation.

We could enable it again, I doubt there will be a soname bump in any of the 3
libraries in Squeeze.

RT: I disabled webkit support in libproxy to break a dependency loop (libproxy
-> webkit -> libsoup -> libproxy) because of a transition. Would it be
acceptable if I enabled it back for Squeeze?

Gustavo, I guess there are no plans of splitting JSC into its own tarball upstream?

Regards,
Emilio