Quoting Jonas Smedegaard (2020-04-18 19:02:15)
> UglifyJS 2 is dead upstream (no code commit since June 2017).
> 
> These packages will *not* be part of Bullseye:
> 
> src:uglifyjs
> libjs-uglify
> node-uglify
> 
> Projects now using UglifyJS 2 can either upgrade to UglifyJS 3 or 
> migrate to terser.
> 
> UglifyJS 3 has far fewer reverse dependencies than terser, and is 
> therefore more likely to be kept at newest release and is less likely 
> to be problematic to backport than terser.
> 
> UglifyJS 3 supports only EcmaScript 5, so more modern code need to use 
> Babel so "dumb down" code first, where terser can process more modern 
> dialects directly.
> 
> 
> These packages are part of UglifyJS 3:
> 
> src:uglify-js
> libjs-uglify-js
> node-uglify-js
> uglifyjs
> 
> These packages are part of terser:
> 
> src:node-terser
> node-terser
> uglifyjs.terser

Other alternatives include babel-minify ans esbuild.

I have now removed myself as uploader for src:uglifyjs.

See bug#968137 for the worrying amount of reverse package relations.


 - Jonas

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