[Pkg-javascript-devel] Comments regarding libuv_0.10.8-0~exp1_amd64.changes

[Jérémy Lal]

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On 26/08/2013 16:02, Jean-Michel Vourgère wrote:
> On Saturday 24 August 2013 09:39:58 Jérémy Lal wrote:
>> (...)
>> please notify here when libuv is in a usable state and i'll make
>> nodejs depend on it.
> 
> Hi.
> 
> I recently joined the js team. Sorry if this is a dumb question:
> 
> libv8-3.14 is arch "i386 kfreebsd-i386 amd64 kfreebsd-amd64 armel armhf mipsel".
> nodejs is arch "all".
> 
> So nodejs FTBFS on many arch. We can expect someone will fill a RC bug soon.

typo : you mean nodejs is arch "any"

Hmmm that would mean all arch "any" packages depending on libv8,
even indirectly, must list a subset of the archs for which libv8 builds;
i don't like that idea, but am willing to respect current practice in debian.
(which is ?)

For me, if libv8 doesn't build on powerpc, none of its reverse-dependencies
that are arch:any can build at all, so it's not really FTBFS, is it ?
And if someone manages to get libv8 to work on, say, hurd, all those reverse
dependencies will need a new upload.


> 
> Is libuv a replacement for libv?

typo : libuv / libev ?

No. It was using libev at some point but provides very different features.


Jérémy.