[Pkg-javascript-devel] V8 depends from outdated and unmaintained libv8 with security issues

[Andreas Tille]

On Fri, Feb 08, 2019 at 11:48:57AM +0100, Jérémy Lal wrote:
> > That would be absolutely fantastic, yes.  Also a symlink from
> > libv8.so-> libnode.so woulde be handy, because libv8 doesn't use
> > pkg-config anywhere else so most bindings just test for linking with
> > -lv8.
> >
> 
> Ok then no pkgconfig and a symlink instead.
> I suppose i need to ask a removal of libv8 from unstable (it's removed from
> testing) to
> be able to "take" libv8-dev. Or maybe declare a libv8-in-nodejs-dev package
> ?

Conflicts: libv8-dev (<= version)
Replaces: libv8-dev
Provides: libv8-dev

> In any case i don't know if i should make a libv8-xx package (which would
> basically be
> symlinks to libnode).
> Any advice is welcome...

That should be fine.

Kind regards

       Andreas.

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