[Pkg-javascript-devel] Bug#736332: Bug#736332: Bug#736332: libv8-3.14: support for mips big endian

[Luca BRUNO]

Jérémy Lal <kapouer at melix.org> wrote:

> Hi,
> a similar question can be asked for v8-ppc port, too.
> I need some help for taking a decision here.
> 
> If those ports pass v8 test suites and are maintained, then we should
> consider having them in debian. I'm a little worried about security
> issues, though.

The ideal world would be to only backport patches that have already
been accepted upstream, but I realize this is infeasible in most of
the cases.

I'm a bit worried too about patching upstream for new features, but
OTOH architecture porting shouldn't be too invasive. In this case, I
believe that requiring some kind of upstream liveness check should be
enough: as far as there's somebody updating the patches and reacting to
requests/bugs, it's fine for me.

Just my 2¢, Luca

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