Bug#660487: xulrunner-dev: instant segfault in startup (related to jemalloc)

[Mike Hommey]

On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 07:51:30PM +0000, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=678977#c46
> 
> mike hi, it looks like this has been solved, and i leave it in your
> capable hands to sort out xulrunner - the question remaining is: what
> to do now about hulahop?  i've been asked to help get hulahop into a
> working state, but xulrunner 10 is so badly borked that that's
> impossible.

Without specifics, there's not much I can do.

> that would be fine, if it wasn't for the fact that
> xulrunner-dev has now overwritten and replaced xulrunner-9-dev, making
> it impossible to now compile up python-hulahop.

We can't indefinitely keep multiple versions of xulrunner in the
archive. We don't scale that much. The good news for you is that
xulrunner 10 will stay there for a while and /might/ be what is released
in wheezy. Anyways, as a general rule of thumb, if you're not following
upstream closely and in advance, hulahop is doomed to die.

Mike