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On 04/01/18 02:40, Jérémy Lal wrote:
> 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.
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.