[Pkg-javascript-devel] Bug#994703: Bug#994703: nodejs: please documents deps or avoid it

[Jérémy Lal]

Le dim. 19 sept. 2021 à 18:54, Bastien Roucariès <
roucaries.bastien at gmail.com> a écrit :

> Package: nodejs
> Version: 12.22.5~dfsg-2
> Severity: serious
>
> Dear Maintainer,
>
> README.source should document the deps directory.
>
> It will be better to remove some libs from deps. Why libz is needed for
> node ?
> Could we push this plugin stuff to libz and so on.
>
> Acorn embdeded should be fixed by recent version.
>
> openssl one is worry some..
>

Hi,

What's in ./deps/ is mostly not used for building node.
It's pretty much obvious if you look at ./debian/rules configure flags.

I believe it is not common practice to remove unused files, as long as it's
okay with DFSG.
That's why
zlib, openssl, nghttp2, http-parser, uv, c-ares, brotli
are kept around in ./deps/ directory.

This is actually useful, it makes debugging against "upstream-like" builds
easier.

Jérémy
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