[Pkg-javascript-devel] Bug#802111: smash: FTBFS: TypeError: sandbox must be an object

[Thomas Goirand]

On 10/29/2015 04:34 PM, Jérémy Lal wrote:
> 
> 
> 2015-10-29 16:24 GMT+01:00 Thomas Goirand <zigo at debian.org
> <mailto:zigo at debian.org>>:
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>     Hi,
> 
>     I'm worried that this bug is left undressed. It affects *a lot* of
>     packages, including:
>     - nodejs
>     - openstack-dashboard
> 
>     And also, upstream seems to not care about it, as per the github issue
>     set in the forwarded-to-url.
> 
>     Laszlo, will you work on this?
> 
> 
> Hi,
> how does it affect "nodejs" ?
> 
> Jérémy

Well, not nodejs itself directly. Though a lot of javascript libraries
are build-depending on node-smash, like for example libjs-angularjs.
This breaks the dependency chain of many things, not only nodejs packages:

- libjs-angular-gettext
- libjs-angularjs-smart-table
- libjs-lrdragndrop
- libjs-magic-search
- libjs-twitter-bootstrap-wizard
- rickshaw: buggy deps smash, flagged for removal in 29.9 days

Then lots of things are in AUTORM status because of this:
- python-mpld3
- some owncloud stuff
- things related to d3
- prometheus
- ...

and affecting OpenStack dashboard and friends:
- horizon
- murano-dashboard
- python-xstatic-angular-cookies
- python-xstatic-angular-gettext
- python-xstatic-angular-lrdragndrop
- python-xstatic-angular-mock
- python-xstatic-angular
- python-xstatic-d3
- python-xstatic-magic-search
- python-xstatic-rickshaw
- python-xstatic-smart-table
- tuskar-ui

I didn't have my facts completely strait, though the point is:
node-smash removal from testing would impact lots of packages, so it'd
be nice to have a way to solve the issue ASAP. And I'm worried that
upstream wrote in the Github issue that nothing will be done. :(

Thomas Goirand (zigo)