[Pkg-javascript-devel] Bug#977027: rhino breaks dojo autopkgtest: Cannot set property "dojo" of null to "[object Object]"

[Markus Koschany]

Hello,

On Sun, 26 Mar 2023 09:41:48 +0200 Graham Inggs <ginggs at debian.org> wrote:
[...]
> To both the rhino and dojo maintainers, please investigate so we can
> have this resolved for bookworm.

Here are my investigations:

1. There is no transition needed because only shrinksafe is affected by the new
rhino version.

2. shrinksafe has no reverse-dependencies

3. We had the exact same problem before [1]. Back then the fix was to rebuild
the package and to fix the shrinksafe tests by setting a specific Javascript
version. [2] Since just rebuilding dojo also fixes the problem, I assume that
we don't have to change this option.

4. I have rebuilt all rhino reverse-dependencies successfully.

5. I have tested yui-compressor, a similar tool, with rhino 1.7.14 and without
rebuilding the existing package and this one works as expected.

6. Regarding Openrefine: It does only work with rhino 1.7.14 in unstable. Hence
why I tightened the dependency on rhino to 1.7.14. The current version of rhino
in testing breaks the Javascript application.

7. Summary: I recommend to rebuild dojo to fix the autopkgtests. I suggest to
reconsider the current autopkgtest behavior. At least there should be a warning
or a note for maintainers in the future that dojo requires a rebuild whenever
rhino changes.

Regards,

Markus

[1] https://bugs.debian.org/970501
[2]
https://salsa.debian.org/js-team/dojo/-/commit/68e6a048b4c4386d0495e7faf11bd46bf0516604
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