Bug#886294: transition: nodejs
On Thu, 4 Jan 2018 18:43:13 +0100 Emilio Pozuelo Monfort
<pochu@debian.org> wrote:
> On 04/01/18 16:28, Jérémy Lal wrote:
> >
> >
> > 2018-01-04 12:09 GMT+01:00 Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org
> > <mailto:pochu@debian.org>>:
> >
> > Control: tags -1 confirmed
> >
> > On 04/01/18 02:40, Jérémy Lal wrote:
> > > Package: release.debian.org <http://release.debian.org>
> > > Severity: normal
> > > User: release.debian.org@packages.debian.org
> > <mailto:release.debian.org@packages.debian.org>
> > > Usertags: transition
> > >
> > > nodejs 8.9.3 brings the following improvements for debian:
> > > - a backported openssl 1.1.0 compatibility from nodejs 9.x branch
> > > - hard-to-debug segmentation faults fix (#878674)
> > > - it is an upstream LTS branch
> > >
> > > Julien Puydt and me checked all direct reverse build-deps and i
> > > took care of several issues that appeared with the update:
> > > - test failures caused by the move to openssl 1.1.0
> > > - failures caused by exception names changes in assert module
> > > - failures caused by api that was deprecated long ago then dropped
> > >
> > > There was no major issue with pure javascript modules and
> > > addons depending on nodejs-abi were rebuilt smoothly after the fixes.
> >
> > The ongoing nodejs transition to 6.12.0 hasn't been completed yet due to a build
> > failure on mips(el) and those segfaults. Given 8.9/experimental seems to fix all
> > those issues, let's go with that version.
> >
> >
> > Cool. Do you mean i should upload it to unstable now ?
For the record, Jérémy Lal uploaded nodejs a few days ago (although it
is not built on all archs yet, arm64 and armhf are missing).
Saludos
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