[Pkg-javascript-devel] Status of libv8?

[Andreas Tille]

Hi Jérémy,

On Fri, Jan 18, 2019 at 11:51:38AM +0100, Jérémy Lal wrote:
> > However, when reading
> >
> >    https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=773671#59
> >
> > it might rather the best idea to remove this lib from Debian at all and
> > I need to see how I can avoid depending from this package.
> 
> Indeed, i am sorry for this bad state of things; i thought i could handle
> it,
> but obviously i couldn't.
> 
> Possible solutions (besides not using it at all):
> - bundle it - nodejs bundles it
> - change nodejs to build its v8 as a shared lib, and provide it
> it makes sense because upstream nodejs do all the work of keeping ABI
> stability,
> backporting security fixes, choosing the right version, and so on.
> - take over maintenance and distribute it independently of nodejs

This sounds like a pretty sensible solution.  I see you and Jonas are
also uploaders for nodejs.  It would be really great if you could do
this.

Kind regards

       Andreas.

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