[Pkg-javascript-devel] Please schedule binNMU for rdepends of libv8

[Jérémy Lal]

On 11/05/2012 19:10, Julien Cristau wrote:
> On Sat, May  5, 2012 at 20:25:14 +0200, Tobias Frost wrote:
> 
>> Dear release team,
>>
>> to allow removal of old version of libv8 and allow transition of it to
>> testing, please schedule a binnmu for its rdepends:
>>
>> drizzle
>> osmium
>>
> Done.

Thank you.

> What about chromium-browser's FTBFS on arm, and libv8-i18n?

I'll update libv8-i18n.
What's the relation with chromium FTBFS on arm (i guess you mean armel) ?

> Somebody should talk to the v8 folks about ABI stability sometime.

I do... no success yet [1]

I would very much like to use libv8-x.y instead of libv8-x.y.z.
Some tool like [2] seems to indicate that for example, there is no
ABI breakage risk between libv8-3.9.24.1 and libv8-3.9.24.21, as
upstream explains it in [1] too.
But, as was discussed on debian-devel [3], it's hard to certify
without upstream supporting this.
Also it takes an experimented c++ programmer to support that.
I'm not.

Jérémy.



[1]
https://groups.google.com/d/topic/v8-users/VJRmaQV-M3E/discussion
[2]
http://www.upstream-tracker.org/versions/v8.html
[3]
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2012/01/msg00671.html