[Bug 2080872] Re: replace unmaintained http-parser dependency with llhttp

[Utkarsh Gupta]

There's no way you'd want to do that. YET. :)

See: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1081534.

> libgit2 in experimental has been switched from libhttp-parser-dev to
> libllhttp-dev which massively reduced installability of libgit2 because
> the latter has a transistive dependency on nodejs which has only
> limited platform support.
>
> Please switch libgit2 back to libhttp-parser-dev for architectures that
> don't build libllhttp-dev because they don't have support for nodejs.

Unless the security team is really willing to go down that path, this
can't happen yet. There's a lot that needs to happen before this can be
deemed doable & maintainable.

** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #1081534
   https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1081534

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Title:
  replace unmaintained http-parser dependency with llhttp

Status in libgit2 package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  http-parser has been deprecated [0] for llhttp [1] in libgit2.

  http-parser is unmaintained. There is nobody writing security patches
  for http-parser. It should be removed as a libgit2 dependency and then
  removed from the main archive.

  Note http-parser's MIR clause [2]:

    Security team propose a conditional ACK for promoting http-parser to main
    upon Foundations team's acknowledgment of their commitment in assisting with
    the development of security fixes, in the absence of upstream support, as
    well as their responsibility to ask for demoting the pacakge in the future
    once a suitable alternative is identified and deemed feasible.

  [0] https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/issues/6074
  [1] https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/pull/6713
  [2] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/http-parser/+bug/1990655/comments/14

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