Debian Bug report logs - #497701
ITP: libv8 -- Google V8 JavaScript Engine

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Jaakko Heusala <jheusala@iki.fi>

To: submit@bugs.debian.org

Subject: RFP: libv8 -- Google V8 JavaScript Engine

Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2008 20:29:45 +0300

Package: libv8
Severity: wishlist

Google V8 is a C++ library for embedding JavaScript support into C++ 
applications. It's the JavaScript engine for Google's Chrome browser.

SVN repository is at <http://v8.googlecode.com/svn/>. At the time I'm 
writing this the latest version seems to be 0.2.

Google V8 is licensed by a BSD license and some third party parts of it 
are 2-clause BSD, MIT and 3-clause BSD according to the V8's LICENSE file.

My deb-package for etch is located at 
<http://www.jhh.me/pub/packages/debian/etch/libv8/> and it's based on 
the SVN trunk version.

-- 
Jaakko Heusala <jheusala@iki.fi>

Message #12 received at 497701@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Nelson Elhage <nelhage@MIT.EDU>

To: 497701@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Second the request and v8 shell

Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2008 01:50:38 -0500

I'd like to second this request.

Additionally, the v8 dist contains a sample program demonstrating the
use of the v8 library, 'samples/shell.cc' that provides a minimal
interactive shell and interpreter for .js files; This might be
appropriate to install and add as an alternative for 'js'.

- Nelson Elhage

Message #17 received at 497701@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Antonio Radici <antonio@dyne.org>

To: 497701@bugs.debian.org, control@bugs.debian.org

Subject: ITP: libv8 -- Google V8 JavaScript Engine

Date: Sun, 01 Feb 2009 18:51:17 +0000

retitle 497701 ITP: libv8 -- Google V8 JavaScript Engine
owner 497701 !
thanks

Taking this, it seems a pretty 'standard' project so it can
be packaged easily.

Cheers
Antonio

Message #26 received at 497701@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Antonio Radici <antonio@dyne.org>

To: 497701@bugs.debian.org

Subject: ITP: libv8 -- Google V8 JavaScript Engine

Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2009 21:49:52 +0000

The package seemed simple but actually there are two issues:
1) the package is using scons without any install target, that
means that it should be patched so an install target will be
added; this is trivial

2) the shared library which is built from the package (libv8.so)
is not shipping *any* soname, and scons does not support
sonames natively; upstream knows about this, see:
http://code.google.com/p/v8/issues/detail?id=151

The Debian Library Packaging Guide advices to inform upstream
about the soname missing and let him add the soname, rather than
introducing a binary compatibility only for debian.

I'm poking upstream, if he does not reply probably it's better
not to package libv8, waiting for the soname; anyway if someone
else has any other idea please feel free to change the ownership
of this ITP.

Cheers
Antonio

Message #31 received at 497701@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Fabien Tassin <fta@sofaraway.org>

To: Antonio Radici <antonio@dyne.org>

Cc: 497701@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: ITP: libv8 -- Google V8 JavaScript Engine

Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 12:48:07 +0100

According to Antonio Radici:
> The package seemed simple but actually there are two issues:

Just to let you know that I filed bugs upstream for those 2 issues a while ago
when i worked on v8 and chromium for Ubuntu.

The 1st issue is http://code.google.com/p/v8/issues/detail?id=150
I already addressed the 'install' target as a patch.
I don't remember why i didn't push it upstream, I should have.

My packaging branch is available at:
https://code.launchpad.net/~chromium-team/chromium-v8/chromium-v8.head
And the corresponding project page:
https://launchpad.net/chromium-v8

It would be nice to merge our efforts.
Please let me know what you think.

/Fabien

Message #36 received at 497701@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Antonio Radici <antonio@dyne.org>

To: fta@sofaraway.org, 497701@bugs.debian.org

Subject: ITP: libv8 -- Google V8 JavaScript Engine

Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2009 10:41:00 +0000

Hi Fabien,
next week I'll package libv8 with a 0d SONAME; I saw
your bug report and I remember posting a comment
in there but I don't know where I cannot see it anymore :|

I'm already using your install patch, unfortunately
scons does not support SONAME's natively; if you have
any workaround please let me know :)

A temporary git repository is here:
http://git.debian.org/?p=users/antonio-guest/libv8.git

I'll move it to collab-maint as soon as I finish the
debian packaging and tag the first release, let me know
if you want to contribute to it :-)

Cheers
Antonio

Message #41 received at 497701@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Fabien Tassin <fta@sofaraway.org>

To: antonio@dyne.org

Cc: 497701@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: ITP: libv8 -- Google V8 JavaScript Engine

Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2009 14:12:03 +0100

Antonio,

I just had a look at your branch, it's totally different from mine.
That's too bad, I don't see how we could collaborate here.

It seems to me you are re-doing everything differently.

I don't understand why you didn't start from my branch.
I have everything needed, except the soname, which you don't have
either.

/Fabien

On Sat, 2009-02-14 at 10:41 +0000, Antonio Radici wrote:
> Hi Fabien,
> next week I'll package libv8 with a 0d SONAME; I saw
> your bug report and I remember posting a comment
> in there but I don't know where I cannot see it anymore :|
> 
> I'm already using your install patch, unfortunately
> scons does not support SONAME's natively; if you have
> any workaround please let me know :)
> 
> A temporary git repository is here:
> http://git.debian.org/?p=users/antonio-guest/libv8.git
> 
> I'll move it to collab-maint as soon as I finish the
> debian packaging and tag the first release, let me know
> if you want to contribute to it :-)
> 
> Cheers
> Antonio
> 

Message #46 received at 497701@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Alexander Sack <asac@debian.org>

To: 497701@bugs.debian.org

Cc: Antonio Radici <antonio@dyne.org>, fta@ubuntu.com

Subject: ITP: libv8 -- Google V8 JavaScript Engine

Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2009 15:43:55 +0100

Hi,

Antonio, would you consider to team maintain this with Fabien? Fabien
did quite a lot of work on the whole chromium stack, he just seemed to
be not aware about how take an ITP. Also having the whole chromium
stack maintained by a team seems to make a lot of sense to me.

Thanks for considering this,

 - Alexander

Message #51 received at 497701@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Antonio Radici <antonio@dyne.org>

To: Alexander Sack <asac@debian.org>, 497701@bugs.debian.org

Cc: fta@ubuntu.com

Subject: Re: Bug#497701: ITP: libv8 -- Google V8 JavaScript Engine

Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2009 19:36:37 +0000

Alexander Sack wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Antonio, would you consider to team maintain this with Fabien? Fabien
> did quite a lot of work on the whole chromium stack, he just seemed to
> be not aware about how take an ITP. Also having the whole chromium
> stack maintained by a team seems to make a lot of sense to me.
> 

Sure, no problem
I'll adapt the git repository to its work and add him to the maintainers.

Cheers
Antonio

Message #56 received at 497701@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Antonio Radici <antonio@dyne.org>

To: Fabien Tassin <fta@sofaraway.org>, 497701@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#497701: ITP: libv8 -- Google V8 JavaScript Engine

Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2009 19:40:25 +0000

Fabien Tassin wrote:
> Antonio,
> 
> I just had a look at your branch, it's totally different from mine.
> That's too bad, I don't see how we could collaborate here.
> 
> It seems to me you are re-doing everything differently.
> 
> I don't understand why you didn't start from my branch.
> I have everything needed, except the soname, which you don't have
> either.

Hi Fabien,
I have no problem in copying over your branch, if you're already member
of the collab-maint group on alioth you're welcome to change it accordingly;
if not please request the membership on alioth :-)

I'm adding libv8.git to collab-maint right now, please feel free to include
all your changes and let me know if you find something not compatible, I'd be
more than happy to remove it and include your changes as soon as they are
compliant with Debian Policy 3.8.0.

Feel free to contact me with a private mail if you have any questions.

Cheers
Antonio

Message #61 received at 497701@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Jérémy Lal <jerry@edagames.com>

To: 497701@bugs.debian.org

Subject: upstream seems to be waiting for you

Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2009 22:17:45 +0200

i just checked
http://code.google.com/p/v8/issues/detail?id=151

Comment 2  by kasperl@chromium.org, Feb 23, 2009
Sorry about not responding to this earlier. We'd be happy to accept patches for
adding a SONAME to the generated shared object files to our SCons-based build system.

i had to make sure you noticed :)

Cheers,
Jérémy.

Message #66 received at 497701@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Jérémy Lal <jerry@edagames.com>

To: 497701@bugs.debian.org

Subject: soname in v8

Date: Mon, 04 May 2009 10:34:53 +0200

v8 now adds a correct soname to the library (in 1.1 branch and in bleeding edge),
provided scons is called with
soname=on

Cheers,
Jérémy Lal

Message #71 received at 497701@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Antonio Radici <antonio@dyne.org>

To: fta@sofaraway.org

Cc: 497701@bugs.debian.org

Subject: libv8 in debian

Date: Sun, 6 Sep 2009 13:53:11 +0000

Hi Fabien,
I still have ITP 497701 for libv8 open and I saw that you and your team made a
great progress incorporating libv8 in Ubuntu, since upstream is now distributing
a SONAME I reckon that the debian packaging would be fairly easy and it would be
just a  matter of incorporating your changes (obviousy retaining your
copyright).

Since you did most of the work on Ubuntu, I was wondering if you want to
co-maintain the package in Debian (if you don't have time) or even maintain it
(if you have time), I will take care of doing the first build by adapting your
package for Debian and then it will be just a matter of syncing the two repo.

What do you think?

I look forward to your reply.

Cheers
Antonio

Message #76 received at 497701@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Antonio Radici <antonio@dyne.org>

To: 497701@bugs.debian.org

Cc: fta@sofaraway.org

Subject: Re: Bug#497701: libv8 in debian

Date: Sun, 6 Sep 2009 16:59:14 +0100

As follow-up to my previous mail:
I've created the libv8 package by slightly modifying Fabien changes to make the
package lintian clean, everything can be seen in the git repo.

The package can be found on mentors.debian.net:
- URL: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/l/libv8
- Source repository: deb-src http://mentors.debian.net/debian unstable main
  contrib non-free
- dget http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/l/libv8/libv8_1.3.9-1.dsc

I've sent a mail to debian-mentors@ to get a sponsor.

Cheers
Antonio

Message #83 received at 497701@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Antonio Radici <antonio@dyne.org>

To: 497701@bugs.debian.org

Cc: fta@sofaraway.org, joey@kitenet.net

Subject: Re: Bug#497701: libv8 in debian

Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2009 19:02:49 +0100

Hi all,
status for everyone who's interested to this package:
the package was uploaded to NEW and rejected because the licenses were
not correctly specified; then after a further inspection of the licenses I've
found that a tool called tools/jsmin.py which is licensed with a non-free
license, see the related thread here:

http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2009/09/msg00033.html

I'm following this up with upstream and see what we can do.

Cheers
Antonio

Message #88 received at 497701@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>

To: Antonio Radici <antonio@dyne.org>

Cc: 497701@bugs.debian.org, fta@sofaraway.org

Subject: Re: Bug#497701: libv8 in debian

Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2009 23:15:44 -0400

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Antonio Radici wrote:
> status for everyone who's interested to this package:
> the package was uploaded to NEW and rejected because the licenses were
> not correctly specified; then after a further inspection of the licenses I've
> found that a tool called tools/jsmin.py which is licensed with a non-free
> license, see the related thread here:
> 
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2009/09/msg00033.html
> 
> I'm following this up with upstream and see what we can do.

FWIW, since this is just a javascript minifier, it seems the import of
it could easily be ripped out of js2c.py, and replaced with stub
functions that do no mimimsation. 

-- 
see shy jo

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Message #93 received at 497701@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>

To: Antonio Radici <antonio@dyne.org>

Cc: 497701@bugs.debian.org, fta@sofaraway.org

Subject: Re: Bug#497701: libv8 in debian

Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2009 23:39:53 -0400

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The attached patch allows v8 to build with jsmin.py removed, as it
has already been in git.

(Conversion to quilt patch left as exersise for reader.)

-- 
see shy jo

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Message #98 received at 497701@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Antonio Radici <antonio@dyne.org>

To: Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>, 497701@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#497701: libv8 in debian

Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2009 10:57:14 +0000

On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 11:39:53PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> The attached patch allows v8 to build with jsmin.py removed, as it
> has already been in git.
> 
> (Conversion to quilt patch left as exersise for reader.)
> 

Hi Joey,
thanks fro your patch, you were very helpful, I applied it and it worked
like a charm, the new package is on mentors as usual.

The package can be found on mentors.debian.net:
- URL: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/l/libv8
- Source repository: deb-src http://mentors.debian.net/debian unstable
  main contrib non-free
- dget
  http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/l/libv8/libv8_1.3.11+dfsg-1.dsc

Cheers
Antonio

Message #103 received at 497701@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>

To: Antonio Radici <antonio@dyne.org>

Cc: 497701@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#497701: libv8 in debian

Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2009 19:05:22 -0400

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Antonio Radici wrote:
> thanks fro your patch, you were very helpful, I applied it and it worked
> like a charm, the new package is on mentors as usual.
> 
> The package can be found on mentors.debian.net:
> - URL: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/l/libv8
> - Source repository: deb-src http://mentors.debian.net/debian unstable
>   main contrib non-free
> - dget
>   http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/l/libv8/libv8_1.3.11+dfsg-1.dsc

Before sponsoring this, a few things:

* The copyright file needs to either include a copy of the MIT license,
  or refer to a file in debian that contains it. ftp-masters will
  probably say same. (Doesn't matter for JSON license since jsmin is removed).

* In repack.sh the comment before rm jsmin is wrong/boilerplate.

-- 
see shy jo

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Message #108 received at 497701@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Antonio Radici <antonio@dyne.org>

To: Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>, 497701@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#497701: libv8 in debian

Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2009 23:44:57 +0000

On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 07:05:22PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> Before sponsoring this, a few things:
> 
> * The copyright file needs to either include a copy of the MIT license,
>   or refer to a file in debian that contains it. ftp-masters will
>   probably say same. (Doesn't matter for JSON license since jsmin is removed).
> 
> * In repack.sh the comment before rm jsmin is wrong/boilerplate.

I've fixed both things and reuploaded the package on mentors on the same
URL as before, please let me know if there is anything else.

Cheers
Antonio

Message #113 received at 497701-close@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Antonio Radici <antonio@dyne.org>

To: 497701-close@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Bug#497701: fixed in libv8 1.3.11+dfsg-1

Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 21:25:07 +0000

Source: libv8
Source-Version: 1.3.11+dfsg-1

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
libv8, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:

libv8-0_1.3.11+dfsg-1_i386.deb
  to pool/main/libv/libv8/libv8-0_1.3.11+dfsg-1_i386.deb
libv8-dbg_1.3.11+dfsg-1_i386.deb
  to pool/main/libv/libv8/libv8-dbg_1.3.11+dfsg-1_i386.deb
libv8-dev_1.3.11+dfsg-1_i386.deb
  to pool/main/libv/libv8/libv8-dev_1.3.11+dfsg-1_i386.deb
libv8_1.3.11+dfsg-1.diff.gz
  to pool/main/libv/libv8/libv8_1.3.11+dfsg-1.diff.gz
libv8_1.3.11+dfsg-1.dsc
  to pool/main/libv/libv8/libv8_1.3.11+dfsg-1.dsc
libv8_1.3.11+dfsg.orig.tar.gz
  to pool/main/libv/libv8/libv8_1.3.11+dfsg.orig.tar.gz



A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 497701@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

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pp.
Antonio Radici <antonio@dyne.org> (supplier of updated libv8 package)

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Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2009 23:01:31 +0100
Source: libv8
Binary: libv8-dev libv8-0 libv8-dbg
Architecture: source i386
Version: 1.3.11+dfsg-1
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Antonio Radici <antonio@dyne.org>
Changed-By: Antonio Radici <antonio@dyne.org>
Description: 
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Closes: 497701
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