[Pkg-javascript-devel] Bug#924807: Bug#924807: Bugs come from conflict between node-uglify and node-uglify-js

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Quoting Jonas Smedegaard (2019-03-17 23:48:57)
> Quoting Xavier (2019-03-17 23:12:51)
> > Control: reassign 924807 uglify-js
> > Control: reassign 924809 uglify-js
> > Control: merge 924807 924809
> > 
> > Bug seems to come from conflict between
> > https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/uglify-js and
> > https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/uglifyjs: webpack can't now be installed
> > with uglifyjs
> 
> Problem is packages depending on uglifyjs and webpack together: webpack 
> depends indirectly on node-uglify 2.x, whereas uglifyjs is either a 
> virtual package provided by node-uglify 2.x or (since recently) a real 
> package depending on node-uglyfy-js 3.x.
> 
> Yes, the problem emerged when node-uglify was introduced as a real 
> package, but the fix is for those packages depending on uglifyjs and 
> webpack together to depend on node-uglify 2.x instead of the virtual 
> package.
> 
> Please revert these reassignments: This cannot be fixed in uglifyjs 3.x.

Put differently, the problem is packages depending both unversioned and 
transitively versioned on uglifyjs - that works only as long as the 
transitive dependency happens to be newest major release of uglifyjs.

 - Jonas

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