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- Don't remove all src/ directories, as that breaks npm.
  (boo:#1043965)
- New upstream version 8.1.0
  Notable changes,
  * Async Hooks - When one Promise leads to the creation of a new
    Promise, the parent Promise will be identified as the trigger
  * Dependencies
    + libuv has been updated to 1.12.0
    + npm has been updated to 5.0.3
  * File system
    + The fs.exists() function now works correctly with
      util.promisify()
    + fs.Stats times are now also available as numbers
  * Inspector
    + It is now possible to bind to a random port using --inspect=0
  * Zlib
    + A regression in the Zlib module that made it impossible to
      properly subclasses zlib.Deflate and other Zlib classes has
      been fixed.

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- placeholders from other NodeJS version: 0f3e69db.patch, icu59.patch.

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- node-gyp-addon-gypi.patch: refresh

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- Branch nodejs7 -> nodejs8, the new current and eventually LTS
  upstream branch. Note that the LTS lifespan for 8.x will end on
  December 31st, 2019 unless extended at a later date.
- New upstream version 8.0.0. Notable changes
  * Async Hooks - now in core
  * Buffer
    + Using the --pending-deprecation flag will cause Node.js to
    emit a deprecation warning when using new Buffer(num) or
    Buffer(num).
    + new Buffer(num) and Buffer(num) will zero-fill new Buffer
    + Many Buffer methods now accept Uint8Array as input
  * Child Process
    + Argument and kill signal validations have been improved
    + Child Process methods accept Uint8Array as input
  * Console
    + Error events emitted when using console methods are now
      supressed.
  * Dependencies
    + The npm client has been updated to 5.0.0
    + V8 has been updated to 5.8 with forward ABI stability to 6.0
  * Domains
    + Native Promise instances are now Domain aware
  * Errors
    + We have started assigning static error codes to errors
      generated by Node.js. This has been done through multiple
      commits and is still a work in progress.
  * File System
    + The utility class fs.SyncWriteStream has been deprecated
    + The deprecated fs.read() string interface has been removed
  * HTTP
    + Improved support for userland implemented Agents
    + Outgoing Cookie headers are concatenated into a single string
    + The httpResponse.writeHeader() method has been deprecated
    + New methods for accessing HTTP headers have been added to
      OutgoingMessage
  * lib
    + All deprecation messages have been assigned static identifiers
    + The legacy linkedlist module has been removed
  * N-API
    + Experimental support for the new N-API API has been added
  * Process
    + Process warning output can be redirected to a file using the
      --redirect-warnings command-line argument
    + Process warnings may now include additional detail
  * REPL
    + REPL magic mode has been deprecated
  * src
    + NODE_MODULE_VERSION has been updated to 57
    + Add --pending-deprecation command-line argument and
      NODE_PENDING_DEPRECATION environment variable
    + The --debug command-line argument has been deprecated.
      Note that using --debug will enable the new Inspector-based
      debug protocol as the legacy Debugger protocol previously
      used by Node.js has been removed.
    + Throw when the -c and -e command-line arguments are used
      at the same time
    + Throw when the --use-bundled-ca and --use-openssl-ca
      command-line arguments are used at the same time.
  * Stream
    + Stream now supports destroy() and _destroy() APIs
    + Stream now supports the _final() API
  * TLS
    + The rejectUnauthorized option now defaults to true
    + The tls.createSecurePair() API now emits runtime deprecation
    + A runtime deprecation will now be emitted when dhparam is
      less than 2048 bits
  * URL
    + The WHATWG URL implementation is now a fully-supported API
  * Util
    + Symbol keys are now displayed by default when using
      util.inspect()
    + toJSON errors will be thrown when formatting %j
    + Convert inspect.styles and inspect.colors to prototype-less
      objects
    + The new util.promisify() API has been added
  * Zlib
    + Support Uint8Array in Zlib convenience methods
    + Zlib errors now use RangeError and TypeError consistently

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