[Pkg-javascript-devel] Bug#971786: Bug#971786: Bug#971786: src:pdf.js: please package new upstream version

[Xavier]

Le 08/10/2020 à 11:42, Jonas Smedegaard a écrit :
> Quoting Xavier (2020-10-08 06:13:30)
>> Le 07/10/2020 à 17:13, Xavier a écrit :
>>> Le 07/10/2020 à 17:03, Carsten Schoenert a écrit :
>>>> Hello Xavier,
>>>>
>>>> Am 07.10.20 um 16:29 schrieb Xavier:
>>>>> Le 07/10/2020 à 10:29, Carsten Schoenert a écrit :
>>>>> this modules looks useless in Debian:
>>>>>  * no reverse-dependencies
>>>>
>>>> well, might simply because the version in Debian is far to old for 
>>>> all possibly other packages. ;) I haven't looked at packages that 
>>>> using now preshipped pdf.js.
>>>>
>>>>>  * one binary mas to be removed (xul component, #906835)
>>>>
>>>> Yes, obviously.
>>>>
>>>>>  * you're the first person who looks to it for a while ;-)
>>>>>
>>>>> Then do you need its update ? I can do it but it requires some 
>>>>> work (zelenka.debian.org is working on it :-D).
>>>>
>>>> No hurry, I was today looking into upgrading kopano-webapp to 4.3 
>>>> and the Kopano is using pdf.js since version 4.0 here.
>>>>
>>>> There are other issues to solve, but using pdf.js from Debian would 
>>>> prevent the requirement to use the embedded version.
>>>
>>> OK, I'll update it
>>
>> Sadly updating pdf.js requires to update acorn to acorn 7.4. This will
>> take time...
> 
> Perhaps then sensible to update it to something newer yet not newest.

Finally it seems easy to upgrade acorn (with recent rollup* upgrades). I
pushed my work to experimental.

The only problem I found with this upgrade is related to rollup build
(not fixed for now).

@rouca, could you take a look at my changes, especially
https://salsa.debian.org/js-team/acorn/-/commit/3400be5a ?

> Thanks for your efforts!

Thanks ;-)