[Bug 286906]

[Pbiggar]

Bug 618318 is a little bit of a different bug. It doesn't make us 'grow
up and become a ral library', but it goes about halfway there in a way
which is useful for quite a number of users. Specifically, it:

- packages spidermonkey separately to FF and xulrunner.
- adds a major version number to the .so file, which is updated on API (and ABI as much as we can) changes
- allows mozilla to keep making incompatible changes, with a new .so number
- allows distributions to backport changes if they wish (in which case they would update the minor version number).
- only adds a tiny burden to mozilla (remember to increase the number of API changes, and aspirationally ABI changes).

It doesn't do everything distros would like (too high a burden on us),
but it makes the world nicer for users.

I propose we WONTFIX this bug, and move our attention to bug 618318.

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Title:
  provide and support a top-level library package for libmozjs (Was: Unable to use libmozjs.so in an application, because of library path problem.)