[Pkg-javascript-devel] Bug#982766: Bug#982766: Bug#982766: node-webpack: remove dependency on node-uglifyjs-webpack-plugin

[Pirate Praveen]

On 2021, ഫെബ്രുവരി 14 2:55:33 PM IST, Jonas Smedegaard <jonas at jones.dk> wrote:
>Quoting Pirate Praveen (2021-02-14 08:32:08)
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>> On 2021, ഫെബ്രുവരി 14 12:44:09 PM IST, Julian Gilbey <jdg at debian.org> wrote:
>> >webpack depends on node-uglifyjs-webpack-plugin, which in turn has a 
>> >serious bug report against it because it is abandoned upstream.
>> 
>> We should reduce severity of that bug or add bullseye-ignore tag and 
>> maintain it without upstream support.
>
>No, we should not hide the true severity of issues in our packages: The 
>issue _is_ serious and has been for some time.

It is perfectly working and nothing is broken. Only in case of some future bugs, we will have to fix it ourselves without upstream help. It also just a wrapper for calling uglify-js or terser directly from webpack. We will have to replace it for next release, but I don't think it is release critical when there are people willing to maintain it and nothing is broken currently.

>
>> >According to webpack/package.json, webpack does not seem to actually 
>> >depend on this plugin, so it should be find to just remove this 
>> >dependency.
>> >
>> >If this dependency is left, node-webpack will be dropped from 
>> >bullseye.
>
>@Praveen, do you have any comments on the proposed change?

I don't agree to removing webpack (which means removing a large number of node packages as well). My proposed solution is to ignore it for bullseye.
>
> - Jonas
>

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