[Pkg-javascript-devel] Bug#960901: Buffer is a built-in node function

[Ben Finney]

Control: found -1 webpack/4.43.0-6

On 16-Jun-2020, Ben Finney wrote:
> On 18-May-2020, Pirate Praveen wrote:
> > https://salsa.debian.org/js-team/node-clone/-/blob/master/clone.js#L109
> > I think we may need to embed older version of buffer module in
> > node-libs-browser
> 
> Okay. I assume that is information for the ‘node-libs-browser’
> maintainer, I think as a user I can't affect that.

Pirate, can you open a new bug report if necessary? I don't understand
the above information enough to know even whether an additional bug
report is required, or what it would report.

> > For this particular case you can try embedding buffer module
> > version 4.x as browsers need an equivalent module to features
> > present only in node.
> 
> This looks like advice for me to work around the problem. What do I
> need to do? How do I (as a user of Webpack) “embed buffer module
> version 4.x”?

What does that suggestion mean, and who should take action to make it
happen?

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Ben Finney <bignose at debian.org>
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