Bug#816424: Please support recent version of libuv

[Andreas Tille]

Hi Joe,

the Debian R packaging team maintains your httpuv package in Debian.
There was a bug reported[1] and the bug reporter suggested the solution
to replace the code copy of libuv inside httpuv by the Debian packaged
library.  I tried to do so but I was running into several build errors
which are caused by the fact that your copy is of

$ head -n1 ChangeLog 
2013.07.26, Version 0.10.13 (Stable)

while Debian has packaged

$ head -n1 ChangeLog 
2017.12.02, Version 1.18.0 (Stable)


Could you imagine to upgrade your internal code copy to the recent
version and adapt your code to work with the recent API?

Kind regards

        Andreas.

Control: tags -1 upstream
COntrol: forwarded -1 Joe Cheng <joe at rstudio.com>


[1] https://bugs.debian.org/816424

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