Future of xulrunner

[Joshua Timberman]

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On Jan 21, 2010, at 10:55 PM, Scott Kitterman wrote:

> It's just been pointed out to me that one of the possible  
> implications of
> https://blueprints.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/desktop-lucid-new-firefox-
> support-model is that Ubuntu would ship xulrunner in Universe to  
> support
> rdepends that we don't want to remove.
>
> The history of xulrunner in Universe is very poor in terms of  
> maintenance and
> security support.  An LTS release is not the time for this.  I think  
> it either
> needs to be in Main or removed.  This will have significant  
> implications as
> there are rdepends that get a lot of use:
>
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/xulrunner-list


These outstanding bugs are annoying for anyone running a server  
installation that makes use of CouchDB, because its dependence on  
xulrunner bring in a heap of X11 libraries that are undesirable on  
servers.

To say the dependency chain here is messy is an understatement.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xulrunner-1.9.1/+bug/421422
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xulrunner-1.9.1/+bug/286906

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