[Pkg-javascript-devel] backport nodejs to wheezy

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Quoting Daniel Pocock (2013-10-11 13:09:38)
> On 11/10/13 11:22, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> > Quoting Daniel Pocock (2013-10-11 10:22:48)
> >> On 11/10/13 10:20, Jérémy Lal wrote:
> >>> On 11/10/2013 09:47, Daniel Pocock wrote:
> >>>> I'm just wondering if anybody else thinks a wheezy-backports 
> >>>> version of nodejs is feasible?
> >>>>
> >>>> I've run it on wheezy and built my own packages (pegjs, jssip) on 
> >>>> wheezy and all seems OK
> >>> Do you backport libv8 too ?
> >> Just looking at the system where I did this, I notice it is not 
> >> pure wheezy
> >>
> >> It has a version of libv8 depending on libc >= 2.14 - I simply 
> >> pulled the packages selectively from testing some months ago
> >>
> >> Has anybody tried a build of libv8 in a pure wheezy system?
> > I suspect you mean libv8-3.14 - libv8 is same version in stable, 
> > testing and unstable.
> >
> > I have not (yet) backported libv8-3.14 to stable, but I have 
> > backported nodejs-0.6.19~dfsg1 to stable, and backported uglifyjs, 
> > pegjs and jssip to stable infected by that nodejs backport:
> >
> >   deb http://debian.jones.dk/ wheezy javascript
> 
> Related to this, I prepared a fix for closure-compiler, one of the 
> jssip build dependencies
> 
> This should clear FTBFS: jssip and allow simplification of
> jssip:debian/rules and build-deps
> 
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=705565#41

I still (as I believe I pointed out in one of the bugreports I filed 
that day when doing the backport) recommend using uglifyjs consistently.

(upstream argued there was a big size gain using another minifier, but 
in actual test the difference was minimal, and uglifyjs is (also) well 
tested and means simpler dependencies, compared to Java-based tools.


 - Jonas

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