[Pkg-javascript-devel] Bug#956423: Bullseye freeze is coming soon

[Pirate Praveen]

Control: severity -1 important

On Mon, 11 Jan 2021 18:39:31 +0100 Xavier <yadd at debian.org> wrote:
 > Hi all,
 >
 > Bullseye freeze is coming and we still have problems with 
node-request
 > removal. In particular, node-jsdom is not easy to patch. I tried a 
patch
 > (not approved by upstream) but it needs a lot of unavailable Node.js
 > modules.
 >
 > Looking at the following list, it seems that only node-jsdom is
 > important to update, others have no important reverse dependencies
 > AFAIK, haven't they?
 >
 > List of problems (from dak):
 > # Broken Depends:
 > node-jsdom: node-jsdom
 > node-jsonld: node-jsonld
 > node-matrix-js-sdk: node-matrix-js-sdk
 > node-millstone: node-millstone
 > node-yarnpkg: yarnpkg

It is not easy to fix yarnpkg (See #980316), so lowering the severity 
to important. It means we will have to support node-request ourselves 
without upstream support. That is true for yarnpkg already, so 
supporting yarnpkg+node-request should be ok.