Hi Jérémy, On Fri, Jan 18, 2019 at 11:51:38AM +0100, Jérémy Lal wrote: > > However, when reading > > > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=773671#59 > > > > it might rather the best idea to remove this lib from Debian at all and > > I need to see how I can avoid depending from this package. > > Indeed, i am sorry for this bad state of things; i thought i could handle > it, > but obviously i couldn't. > > Possible solutions (besides not using it at all): > - bundle it - nodejs bundles it > - change nodejs to build its v8 as a shared lib, and provide it > it makes sense because upstream nodejs do all the work of keeping ABI > stability, > backporting security fixes, choosing the right version, and so on. > - take over maintenance and distribute it independently of nodejs
This sounds like a pretty sensible solution. I see you and Jonas are also uploaders for nodejs. It would be really great if you could do this. Kind regards Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de