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

[Bastien ROUCARIES]

Le dim. 19 sept. 2021 à 19:33, Jérémy Lal <kapouer at melix.org> a écrit :
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> Le dim. 19 sept. 2021 à 18:54, Bastien Roucariès <roucaries.bastien at gmail.com> a écrit :
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>> Package: nodejs
>> Version: 12.22.5~dfsg-2
>> Severity: serious
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>> Dear Maintainer,
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>> README.source should document the deps directory.
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>> 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.
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>> Acorn embdeded should be fixed by recent version.
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>> openssl one is worry some..
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> Hi,
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> What's in ./deps/ is mostly not used for building node.
> It's pretty much obvious if you look at ./debian/rules configure flags.

Yes but README.Source is in this case good
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> I believe it is not common practice to remove unused files, as long as it's okay with DFSG.
Yes also
> That's why
> zlib, openssl, nghttp2, http-parser, uv, c-ares, brotli
> are kept around in ./deps/ directory.
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> This is actually useful, it makes debugging against "upstream-like" builds easier.

Yes but in order to be less worried about something in this huge code
base use these files, I will really prefer to move the deps dir before
configure or removing the -r bit in order to avoid something strange

I was hit ten years ago by some leaking hardcoded path on a project I
compiled, and I really prefer to be paraonoiac on this side

Bastien

> Jérémy
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