[Pkg-javascript-devel] nodejs >= 6 for gitlab in stretch-backports

[Pirate Praveen]

Hi,

I'd like to upload gitlab 10.6 to stretch-backports as backporting
security fixes is becoming difficult. My original idea was also
providing updates via backports, but gitlab switching to nodejs for
front end in gitlab 9 made that impossible.

Now with all nodejs modules stuck in NEW for about 5-7 months, I'm
focusing on gitlab in contrib with nodejs modules installed via npm/yarn.

To get this moving, I have backported all required ruby gems and they
are available here https://people.debian.org/~praveen/gitlab/

Since npm is not in stretch, I hope to upload npm 1.4 to
stretch-backports now and update it when 5.8 is available (which should
be soon).

Now one of the node modules punycode at 2.1.0 needs nodejs >= 6. So I'm
trying to rebuild nodejs for stretch. With help from Jeremy on IRC I was
able to skip nghttp2 support but got stuck with openssl issue. nodejs
supports only openssl 1.1.0g and stretch only has 1.1.0f.

So I tried to build nodejs 6.12 and that worked.

Please suggest/help in proceeding further.

1. Can I just proceed with nodejs 6.12? (stretch-backports-6 branch on
salsa)
2. I need help with building nodejs 8.11 on stretch. (stretch-backports
branch on salsa)

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