Hi,
<div><br></div><div>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.</div>
<div><br></div><div>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.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Kind regards,</div><div>- Vincent Cheng</div><div><br></div><div>[1] <a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-games/2011/04/msg00038.html" target="_blank">http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-games/2011/04/msg00038.html</a></div>
<div>[2] <a href="http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/js/js185-1.0.0.tar.gz" target="_blank">http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/js/js185-1.0.0.tar.gz</a></div>