[Pkg-javascript-devel] Bug#965353: Bug#965353: node-babel7 FTBFS: babel-plugin-dynamic-import-node/src/index.js: isArray is not defined

[Pirate Praveen]

On Sun, Jul 26, 2020 at 19:35, Adrian Bunk <bunk at debian.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 26, 2020 at 09:55:47PM +0530, Pirate Praveen wrote:
>>  I'm wondering if this will require another bootstraping cycle as 
>> node-babel7
>>  autopkgtest is also broken and it depends on itself.
> 
> If the problem is in node-lodash and gets fixed there,
> shouldn't this fix everything?

I don't think the problem is in lodash as I can see babel upstream is 
already using lodash 4.17.19 in their yarn.lock 
https://github.com/babel/babel/blob/f7964a9ac51356f7df6404a25b27ba1cffba1ba7/yarn.lock#L7114

I think babel needs to use the same version of lodash it was built with 
and a breaking change in lodash was released as a minor/patch 
release/security release.

I think it is becoming more and more common to break API during 
security releases (we had to face this in rack/rails in ruby team).

Babel build situation is indeed a mess.

They are dicussing removing lodash from babel though see 
https://github.com/babel/babel/pull/11789