[Pkg-javascript-devel] node-less for wheezy backports?

[Mike Gabriel]

Hi Jonas, hi Alexander,

On  Mi 27 Nov 2013 10:48:52 CET, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:

> Hi Alexander,
>
> Quoting Alexander E. Patrakov (2013-11-27 07:50:48)
>> I have noticed that you have backported nodejs and node-uglify to
>> Wheezy, and that you have put the following comment into node-less
>> debian/rules:
>>
>> # Ease backporting (node-uglify is tough to backport)
>> # TODO: drop fallback-dependency after Wheezy
>>
>> ...which I interpret as an intention to backport node-less to Wheezy.
>> However, to date, there is no such backport. Why?
>
> I wrote that comment.  It is related to backporting in general, not
> backports.debian.org specifically, and was written back when I still
> expected Nodejs to be included in Wheezy (before the frustrating CTTE
> committee ruling).  Also, I forgot to take oldstable into account.
>
> Comment is now adjusted in our git to this:
>
>   TODO: drop fallback-dependency when node-uglify is in oldstable
>
>> The existing source package from Jessie produces the binary packages
>> just fine under Wheezy + nodejs + node-uglify, except for the --help
>> issue (due to require('../lib/less/lessc_helper')) which is not
>> specific to Wheezy (and #693944 has a working patch).
>
> Correct - obviously a missing build-dependency for a backport can be
> solved by also backporting the build-dependency.
>
> The fallback build-dependency mentioned in that comment is for
> supporting stricter backporting rules than those governing
> backports.debian.org.
>
>
>  - Jonas

In the course of backporting owncloud to wheezy, I have also uploaded  
less.js (source package of node-less) to the wheezy-backports NEW  
queue. The package is waiting for bpo ftpmaster approval atm.

Mike
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