[Pkg-javascript-devel] Bug#977900: node-autoprefixer: FTBFS: ENOENT: no such file or directory, open 'path'

[Akshay S Dinesh]

A few observations.

1) The commit 
https://github.com/rollup/plugins/commit/1459cf0ab5e5eb7beee46f52bc4dbbb88d3e4335#diff-c68d63c5e10e04a850c0ea8abd479dbb77c794b3aadecf91483dcf3df96156df 
which prevents exceptions from being silently ignored maybe the reason 
why this is starting to err.


2) See this build log: 
https://salsa.debian.org/js-team/node-autoprefixer/-/jobs/1280125

Line 1757 has the dh_auto_configure output

    dh_auto_configure --buildsystem=nodejs -O--package=node-autoprefixer
	mkdir node_modules
	ln -s ../fractionjs node_modules/fraction.js
    debian/rules override_dh_auto_build

It only symlinks fractionjs.

I don't really read perl, but I think 
https://salsa.debian.org/js-team/pkg-js-tools/-/blob/master/lib/Debian/Debhelper/Buildsystem/nodejs.pm#L128 
says this:

         next if $self->main_package and $component eq $self->main_package;

which probably means it will skip a component of the same name as the 
package. Here, component autoprefixer is probably clashing with the name 
"node-autoprefixer".

On line 1770 this causes

(!) Circular dependency
autoprefixer.js -> autoprefixer.js

where another filename clash makes import from "autoprefixer" to resolve 
to build/autoprefixer.js (probably because it doesn't have an 
autoprefixer in node_modules because of dh_auto_configure above)

3) 
https://salsa.debian.org/js-team/node-autoprefixer/-/blob/master/debian/patches/rearrange-plugins-order.patch 
seems to revert the changes to 
nodeResolve.customResolveOptions.moduleDirectory in the first patch.

Akshay