[Pkg-javascript-devel] Bug#692312: Bug#692312:

[Jérémy Lal]

On 14/01/2013 21:46, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> Quoting Rick Waldron (2013-01-14 21:09:42)
>> It's strange to me this is even an issue that's being argued, I would 
>> assume that a Debian package maintainer would be responsible enough to 
>> keep up with the latest stable releases of whatever they have taken on 
>> to maintain.
>> Back in the real-world, the biggest problem is that 0.6 and 0.8 use 
>> completely different build systems, replacing waf with gyp (both for 
>> building node and native modules). I'm sure you can appreciate and 
>> respect the depth of this problem alone.
>> Please review the changes (published 6 months ago):
>> [1]https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/API-changes-between-v0.6-and-v0.8�
> 
> If the purpose of above was to contribute to move this bugreport 
> forward, then you failed: It is not at all helpful to educate on how 
> irresponsible maintainers are, how much of a dreamworld they live in, or 
> for how long new upstream release have been out.
> 
> If the purpose was to provoke, then you succeeded.  Happy now?
> 
> What would help is elaborate on what renders Nodejs 0.6 branch unusable.
> 
> There is currently code in Debian that will potentially be rendered 
> unusable by the upgrade, so it would be nice to know what would be the 
> gain compared to such potential extra burden.

I agree with Jonas that there is no kind of urgency in updating nodejs.
Please ignore provocations like Rick Waldron does. He has even brought
that matter upstream [0].

It's a lot of work to do again, and i wish i could do it at once.
Here's what i propose (mind that all will go to experimental during freeze) :

Can be quickly done :
* update libv8 (maybe 3.15.11.x)
* update nodejs to 0.8

Takes time :
* package missing node-gyp deps, update npm deps
* package node-gyp 0.8.2

Rather quick once that is done :
* update npm to 1.2.0

Note that i'm not pledging for someone to do that - it's my intention
to do it. Helping will only make it happen sooner.


Regards,
Jérémy


[0]
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/nodejs/W_6avRSG_a8


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