Please remove google-gadgets source and binaries from archive
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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google-gadgets (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
plasma-scriptengine-googlegadgets (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
google-gadgets is using both jsapi and XPCOM quite extensively, which makes it difficult to support, and there doesn't seem to have been any upstream activity since May 2010. I had a go at porting this to xulrunner-2.0 this cycle and the start of my work is in bug 722611 (the patch is already 100kB in size, and still isn't finished), but I don't really have the time to invest in this and it doesn't look like anyone else is going to pick it up. Because of the Firefox release cycle, this is going to become more difficult to support in the future.
Most of the effort required to support this is because of changes to jsapi, which is going to keep changing. For most consumers of this we have now provided a dedicated libmozjs source package which is totally decoupled from the Firefox release cycle. However, google-gadgets can't use this when it is also using XPCOM
Both removed and sync-blacklisted.