Source: node-es5-shim Section: javascript Priority: optional Maintainer: Debian Javascript Maintainers Uploaders: Julien Puydt Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 13), nodejs, uglifyjs Standards-Version: 4.5.1 Rules-Requires-Root: no Homepage: https://github.com/es-shims/es5-shim/ Vcs-Git: https://salsa.debian.org/js-team/node-es5-shim.git Vcs-Browser: https://salsa.debian.org/js-team/node-es5-shim Package: node-es5-shim Architecture: all Multi-Arch: foreign Depends: nodejs, ${misc:Depends}, libjs-es5-shim (= ${binary:Version}) Description: ECMAScript 5 compatibility shims for old JavaScript engines (Node.js) The es5-shim library monkey-patches a JavaScript context to contain all ECMAScript 5 methods that can be faithfully emulated with a legacy JavaScript engine. . The es5-sham part tries to complete the picture as best as possible, but for those methods the result is not as close and mostly intends to avoid runtime errors : in many cases it might just silently fail. . Node.js is an event-based server-side JavaScript engine. Package: libjs-es5-shim Architecture: all Multi-Arch: foreign Depends: ${misc:Depends} Description: ECMAScript 5 compatibility shims for old JavaScript engines (library) The es5-shim library monkey-patches a JavaScript context to contain all ECMAScript 5 methods that can be faithfully emulated with a legacy JavaScript engine. . The es5-sham part tries to complete the picture as best as possible, but for those methods the result is not as close and mostly intends to avoid runtime errors : in many cases it might just silently fail.