[Pkg-javascript-devel] node-less for wheezy backports?

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Hi Alexander,

Quoting Alexander E. Patrakov (2013-11-27 07:50:48)
> I have noticed that you have backported nodejs and node-uglify to 
> Wheezy, and that you have put the following comment into node-less 
> debian/rules:
> 
> # Ease backporting (node-uglify is tough to backport)
> # TODO: drop fallback-dependency after Wheezy
> 
> ...which I interpret as an intention to backport node-less to Wheezy. 
> However, to date, there is no such backport. Why?

I wrote that comment.  It is related to backporting in general, not 
backports.debian.org specifically, and was written back when I still 
expected Nodejs to be included in Wheezy (before the frustrating CTTE 
committee ruling).  Also, I forgot to take oldstable into account.

Comment is now adjusted in our git to this:

  TODO: drop fallback-dependency when node-uglify is in oldstable

> The existing source package from Jessie produces the binary packages 
> just fine under Wheezy + nodejs + node-uglify, except for the --help 
> issue (due to require('../lib/less/lessc_helper')) which is not 
> specific to Wheezy (and #693944 has a working patch).

Correct - obviously a missing build-dependency for a backport can be 
solved by also backporting the build-dependency.

The fallback build-dependency mentioned in that comment is for 
supporting stricter backporting rules than those governing 
backports.debian.org.


 - Jonas

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