Bug#916145: closure-compiler: Not working with recent JS code

[Adrian Bunk]

On Sun, Apr 07, 2019 at 11:12:30AM -0700, tony mancill wrote:
>...
> Somewhat related, given that closure-compiler upstream releases about
> once a month on average, perhaps it is a candidate for doing Something
> Different.

That's pretty normal for a package, and we aren't even close to the 
point where this would matter:

It is by design that stretch ships 2016 versions of packages and
buster ships 2018 versions of packages.

But stretch and buster shipping a 2013 version of a package with more 
recent versions means that even the version in stretch is 3 years
older than it could be.

> Maybe a closure-compiler-installer package or something like that?
>...

The main user of the version currently in buster/unstable are reverse 
dependencies inside Debian. And some are already blocked by the outdated 
version.

closure-compiler-installer would force such packages out of main.

> Cheers,
> tony 
> (wearing a Java Team hat...)

cu
Adrian

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