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Re: V8 depends from outdated and unmaintained libv8 with security issues



On Fri, Feb 8, 2019 at 9:44 AM Jérémy Lal <kapouer@melix.org> wrote:
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> Le ven. 8 févr. 2019 à 07:36, Jeroen Ooms <jeroen@berkeley.edu> a écrit :
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>> For those following this discussion: there is now a version of
>> r-cran-v8 that uses libnode-dev in sid. Is there anything we need to
>> do to get r-cran-v8 back in buster?
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> Hi Jeroen,
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> your work made me realize the debian nodejs source package might just need
> to provide a libv8-dev package with headers in /usr/include/v8 and a pkgconfig
> file that tell to use -lnode ?
> Would that be all ?

That would be absolutely fantastic, yes.  Also a symlink from
libv8.so-> libnode.so woulde be handy, because libv8 doesn't use
pkg-config anywhere else so most bindings just test for linking with
-lv8.


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