[Pkg-javascript-devel] Bug#799656: [JsSIP] Re: Bug#799656: NaN 2.x issue

[Daniel Pocock]

On 28/09/15 18:18, Iñaki Baz Castillo wrote:
> 2015-09-24 15:14 GMT+02:00 Daniel Pocock <daniel at pocock.pro>:
>> Can anybody from the JsSIP team comment on this?  How do you feel about
>> having node-nan 2.x in the dependency hierarchy?  Will you continue
>> using node-websocket or would you possibly use node-ws[1] instead?
>> Using node-ws instead of node-websocket will reduce the number of
>> packages we have to keep track of in Debian.
> Initially I used node-ws, and removed it in favor of node-websocket
> because node-ws was not good for JsSIP needs. There is no way to move
> back to node-ws (in fact, I'm now developer of node-websocket).


Thanks for this feedback

With the JsSIP move to Node, a lot of dependencies were added and I had
to package all of them, including node-websocket.  You can see the
package details for node-websocket here:

https://packages.qa.debian.org/n/node-websocket.html

Debian and Ubuntu only allow one version of each dependency on each
system.  To use node-websocket >= 1.0.22 in Debian stable (via
jessie-backports), we will need to either

a) have node-nan >= 2.0.x in jessie-backports, or

b) adapt node-websocket to support both old and new versions of node-nan
using compiler macros, or

c) maybe we could split the package to have a browser-only version that
doesn't need any of this compiled code?  That would be less painful to
support.