[Pkg-javascript-devel] Bug#926871: Bug#926871: Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected token export

[Jérémy Lal]

Le jeu. 11 avr. 2019 à 17:24, Enrico Zini <enrico at debian.org> a écrit :

> Package: libjs-popper.js
> Version: 1.14.6+ds2-1
> Severity: important
>
> Hello,
>
> these toplevel scripts:
>
>         /usr/share/javascript/popper.js/popper.js
>         /usr/share/javascript/popper.js/popper.min.js
>
> contain an export definition that doesn't seem to be standard
> JavaScript:
>
>         $ tail /usr/share/javascript/popper.js/popper.js
>         …
>         export default Popper;
>
> and indeed, using them in a browser raises an exception:
>
>         Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected token export
>
> Using the umd/ versions work:
>
>         /usr/share/javascript/popper.js/umd/popper.js
>         /usr/share/javascript/popper.js/umd/popper.min.js
>
> I find this to be surprising behaviour, as I'd expect the toplevel
> versions to be valid JavaScript, and other fancy things to be in
> subdirectories, but I'm happy to stand corrected.
>

The top level files should indeed be removed, leaving just the two
directories
- esm stands for "es6 modules" which are the future format, very cool,
though as far as i know is not supported anywhere without some explicit
experimental flag.
- umd stands for "universal modules" and works everywhere

 Jérémy
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