Bug#1126258: cockpit: Please disable Node support on ppc64

John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <[email protected]> Fri, 23 Jan 2026 13:04:05 +0100

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.debian.ports.powerpc
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Source: cockpit
Version: 354-1
Severity: normal
User: [email protected]
Usertags: ppc64
X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected]

Hello,

V8 and consequently NodeJS upstream dropped support for ppc64 such that only an old
version of NodeJS is available on ppc64 which causes cockpit failing to build there:

qunit not found, skipping test builds
building ./pkg/base1/cockpit.js
file:///build/reproducible-path/cockpit-354/build.js:207
            const context = await esbuild.context({
                                          ^

TypeError: esbuild.context is not a function
    at build (file:///build/reproducible-path/cockpit-354/build.js:207:43)

Node.js v20.19.5

See [1].

Thus, please disable NodeJS support on ppc64 to fix this.

Thanks,
Adrian

> [1] https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=cockpit&arch=ppc64&ver=354-1&stamp=1767914644&raw=0

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