Bug#886294: transition: nodejs

[Jérémy Lal <kapouer@melix.org>]

Package: release.debian.org
Severity: normal
User: 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.

Thank you for your attention,
Jérémy


Ben file:

title = "nodejs";
is_affected = .depends ~ "nodejs-abi-48" | .depends ~ "nodejs-abi-57";
is_good = .depends ~ "nodejs-abi-57";
is_bad = .depends ~ "nodejs-abi-48";