[Pkg-javascript-devel] Bug#644463: libnode-node-expat: Object has no method 'addListener' (incompatible with node 4?)

[Jason Woofenden]

Package: libnode-node-expat
Version: 1.4.0-1
Severity: important

Hello,

libnode-node-expat doesn't work for me at all on debian unstable.

Just to be sure it wasn't my code, I've modified the test.js that
comes with node-expat just slightly (fixing the "require" line at
the top to use the system node-expat) and it bails with this
message:

	> node xmltest.js 
	{}

	node.js:134
        	   throw e; // process.nextTick error, or 'error' event on first tick
              	    ^
	TypeError: Object [object Object] has no method 'addListener'
    	    at Object.<anonymous> (/home/jasonwoof/dev/libre.fm-cmus/xmltest.js:196:8)
    	    at run (/usr/lib/nodejs/vows/suite.js:130:31)
    	    at EventEmitter.<anonymous> (/usr/lib/nodejs/vows/suite.js:203:40)
    	    at EventEmitter.emit (events.js:81:20)
    	    at Array.<anonymous> (/usr/lib/nodejs/vows/suite.js:152:58)
    	    at EventEmitter._tickCallback (node.js:126:26)
	zsh: exit 1     node xmltest.js
	compy ~/dev/libre.fm-cmus> 


Attached is the xmltest.js used above.

I poked around a bit, and it looks like there's a recent commit
that changes the way node-expat integrates with the EventEmitter
class to make it compatible with node v5. My guess is that this
change broke compatibility with node v4.

Links about v5 compatibility change:

	https://github.com/astro/node-expat/issues/19
	https://groups.google.com/group/nodejs/browse_thread/thread/ae6bc0e37e2edc39
	https://github.com/astro/node-expat/commit/2f24b623e8cc5dae22f79bf51501382803e5bb73

I tried installing libnode-node-expat_1.3.0-1_i386.deb from
snapshots.debian.org, but that just segfaults for me.


Maybe nodejs v5 is coming to debian soon?


Thanks,     - Jason

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.0.0-1-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages libnode-node-expat depends on:
ii  libc6       2.13-21   
ii  libexpat1   2.0.1-7   
ii  libgcc1     1:4.6.1-13
ii  libstdc++6  4.6.1-13  
ii  nodejs      0.4.12-1  

libnode-node-expat recommends no packages.

libnode-node-expat suggests no packages.

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