Bug#886294: transition: nodejs

[Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>]

On 04/01/18 16:28, Jérémy Lal wrote:
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> 2018-01-04 12:09 GMT+01:00 Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org 
> <mailto:pochu@debian.org>>:
> 
>     Control: tags -1 confirmed
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>     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 ?

Aye.

Emilio