[Pkg-javascript-devel] getting nodejs 12 in debian sid

[shirish शिरीष]

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On 26/11/2019, Jérémy Lal <kapouer at melix.org> wrote:

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>
> Not precisely.
> Upstream v8 currently supports mipsel, however upstream node doesn't,
> so mipsel issues are not investigated. Patches are accepted, though.
> However it's usually tricky to find out what's wrong. And it takes an
> eternity
> to build node on mipsel, so debugging is time-consuming.
> I suspect v8 7.8 to run mipsel just fine.
> There is an ongoing PR on node to merge that version of v8 into node 12.
> That would automatically fix the issue with mipsel.
>
>
>> I also suspect many node modules do not yet support node 12, so it will
>> > reduce the amount
>> > of work needed to wait a little bit before pushing it to sid.
>> >

>> > Jérémy
>

Dear Jeremy,
It seems mipsel will no longer be supported by upstream v8, see -

https://github.com/nxhack/openwrt-node-packages/issues/464

So guessing only v8/v9 will be supported.

Any update as to when we get nodejs starting to make noises in unstable/sid ?

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