[Pkg-javascript-devel] libv8 packaging and arm64

[Jérémy Lal]

Le mercredi 10 septembre 2014 à 15:48 +0100, Steve McIntyre a écrit :
> On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 03:03:57PM +0200, Jérémy Lal wrote:
> >Le mercredi 10 septembre 2014 à 13:28 +0100, Steve McIntyre a écrit :
> >> Hi guys,
> >> 
> >> I've been looking through the (shrinking) list of packages that we
> >> don't have built yet for arm64 and I can see nodejs and friends are
> >> still there. That's likely to be very important for some people
> >> wanting to run web infrastructure on arm64 in future, so I'm keen to
> >> get things built and ready before Jessie.
> >> 
> >> I'm a little worried about the libv8 setup here, it must be said, and
> >> slightly surprised that AFAICS the Debian packages are stuck with a
> >> very old release, v3.14. I know the guys in ARM who have worked on
> >> developing and merging arm64 support in upstream libv8 earlier this
> >> year, and I can see that's happened as of v3.25 or so. Current
> >> upstream as of yesterday is v3.29.53.
> >> 
> >> Is there any chance you're going to get on to a newer version before
> >> Jessie, please?
> >
> >Please read this answer i made a couple of months ago:
> >https://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-javascript-devel/2014-June/008013.html
> 
> ACK. Thanks for the quick response - I appreciate you're in a
> difficult situation. :-/. Do you have any feel for progress towards
> nodejs 0.12 / mongodb 2.8 that you mentioned there?

It doesn't look promising !

Jérémy.