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[Elliot Murphy <elliot@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sep 17, 2010, at 3:50 AM, Max Bowsher <maxb@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 15/09/10 22:12, Paul Hummer wrote:
>> I always get surprised when I find that jslint isn't in the archive.  I
>> think it should go there.  I'm happy to coordinate that work.
> 
> Remember that Mozilla Spidermonkey (libmozjs, /usr/bin/smjs) isn't in
> the Ubuntu archive from lucid onwards either.
> 
> The Ubuntu Mozilla team decided to stop packaging it because Mozilla
> wouldn't maintain a stable ABI for libmozjs.
> 
> https://launchpad.net/bugs/536950

Ah, good point, this was a tricky change. It's sorta still there, just buried deep inside the xulrunner package. CouchDB links to spidermonkey and requires it at runtime to process views. 

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