[Pkg-javascript-devel] Bug#911338: node-webpack: new upstream version 4.21.0 available

[Daniel Kahn Gillmor]

Source: node-webpack
Version: 3.5.6-3
Severity: wishlist
Control: affects -1 src:gpgme1.0
Control: block 911189 by -1

https://github.com/webpack/webpack/archive/v4.21.0.tar.gz is available
upstream.

The debian package for webpack has not been updated since 2018-03-08.

I'm trying to use webpack to build the GPGME javascript bindings (see
https://bugs.debian.org/911189), and that package uses webpack to
bundle its javascript.

but when i try to build it using the "webpack" binary in unstable, i
see errors like so:

-----------
0 dkg at sid:~/src/gpgme/gpgme/lang/js$ npx webpack --config webpack.conf_unittests.js 
Invalid configuration object. Webpack has been initialised using a configuration object that does not match the API schema.
 - configuration has an unknown property 'mode'. These properties are valid:
   object { amd?, bail?, cache?, context?, dependencies?, devServer?, devtool?, entry, externals?, loader?, module?, name?, node?, output?, parallelism?, performance?, plugins?, profile?, recordsInputPath?, recordsOutputPath?, recordsPath?, resolve?, resolveLoader?, stats?, target?, watch?, watchOptions? }
   For typos: please correct them.
   For loader options: webpack 2 no longer allows custom properties in configuration.
     Loaders should be updated to allow passing options via loader options in module.rules.
     Until loaders are updated one can use the LoaderOptionsPlugin to pass these options to the loader:
     plugins: [
       new webpack.LoaderOptionsPlugin({
         // test: /\.xxx$/, // may apply this only for some modules
         options: {
           mode: ...
         }
       })
     ]
1 dkg at sid:~/src/gpgme/gpgme/lang/js$ 
-----------

I suspect this is due to webpack being out of date in debian unstable.

(I can comment out the offending "mode: 'production'" lines from
webpack.conf.js as a workaround, but it looks like upstream expects a
modern version of webpack)

Thanks for maintaining webpack in debian!

       --dkg


-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers testing-debug
  APT policy: (500, 'testing-debug'), (500, 'testing'), (200, 'unstable-debug'), (200, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental-debug'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.18.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)