[Pkg-javascript-devel] Node package for debian & ubuntu

[Jérémy Lal]

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Le jeudi 20 novembre 2014 à 19:04 -0700, Sam Mikes a écrit :
> Hi,
> 
>   I'd like to help with getting the node packages available for ubuntu &
> debian updated.
> 
>   It looks like there are two compile problems:
> 
> 1. on mips, byte order is swapped, causing some tests to fail
> 
> 2. on gnu-hurd-i386, IOV_MAX is not defined, causing the version of libuv
> bundled with node 0.10.29 to fail to compile.  This is still a problem with
> node through 0.10.33, unfortunately.
> 
> What I can I do to help get an updated version of node out?

You can try to make patches fixing those issues.
These fixes will certainly get accepted in testing (i suppose you know
it's freeze time, if not please read
https://release.debian.org/jessie/freeze_policy.html).

Jérémy.