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Re: Epoch for quickjs

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Le lun. 10 nov. 2025 à 15:06, Simon Richter <sjr@debian.org> a écrit :

> Hi,
>
> On 11/10/25 22:15, Jérémy Lal wrote:
>
> > However, upstream quickjs-ng version is 0.11.0, but current quickjs
> > debian version is 2025.04.26-1.
>
> > Policy 5.6.12 requires to ask here the question:
> > is it okay to use an epoch 1:0.11.0-1 in that case ?
>
> Are you replacing the main package, or are you providing an alternate
> package (quickjs-ng) that generates a transitional package, and no
> further versions of the old package will be uploaded?
>

Replacing the main package.
The old package is only used by edbrowse (reverse build-dep on libquickjs),
and we are already working on it (upstream update added support for
quickjs-ng).

In the latter case, it is also possible to give that transitional
> package a version number like "2025.99+really0.11.0" -- a source package
> can build binaries with different version numbers.
>

Yes, good idea. And that should also work with upgrading quickjs "in-place".


> The other question is whether this is a drop-in replacement, or if it
> should really be named "quickjs-ng", and dependencies adjusted, with no
> transition managed through packages.


It's not a drop-in replacement, though there are more and more packages
switching to quickjs-ng.
Porting can be easy in the simplest cases...

These packages embed "quickjs":
Easy to upgrade:
hugo (runs only the executable, easy to update)
edbrowse (with an existing upgrade to quickjs-ng)
node-quickjs-emscripten (upgradable to quickjs-ng compatible version)

Unknown:
elinks
giac

Not easy to upgrade:
pdf.js (it's used as a wasm blob to run sandboxed scripts, doable with
quickjs-emscripten, but maybe not trivial at all)
libjavascript-quickjs-perl (not easy)
pljs (not easy)

and these packages embed (or support) "quickjs-ng":
warzone2100
r-cran-quickjsr
radare2
libnginx-mod-js
qbs

Jérémy

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Epoch for quickjs Jérémy Lal <kapouer@melix.org> - 2025-11-10 14:20 +0100
  Re: Epoch for quickjs Simon Richter <sjr@debian.org> - 2025-11-10 15:10 +0100
    Re: Epoch for quickjs Jérémy Lal <kapouer@melix.org> - 2025-11-10 16:10 +0100
      Re: Epoch for quickjs Soren Stoutner <soren@debian.org> - 2025-11-13 20:30 +0100
        Re: Epoch for quickjs Soren Stoutner <soren@debian.org> - 2025-11-13 21:40 +0100
          Re: Epoch for quickjs Jérémy Lal <kapouer@melix.org> - 2025-11-13 21:40 +0100
      Re: Epoch for quickjs gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org> - 2025-11-13 23:10 +0100
        Re: Epoch for quickjs Jérémy Lal <kapouer@melix.org> - 2025-11-13 23:50 +0100
          Re: Epoch for quickjs gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org> - 2025-11-14 13:40 +0100
        Re: Epoch for quickjs Jérémy Lal <kapouer@melix.org> - 2025-11-13 23:50 +0100

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