[Pkg-javascript-devel] how to build jsondiffpatch?

[Andrew Kelley]

I am working on packaging jsondiffpatch:
https://github.com/benjamine/jsondiffpatch

This would be:

Source package: jsondiffpatch.js
Node package: node-jsondiffpatch
libjs package: libjs-jsondiffpatch

Node package part is done. The hard part is the libjs package. The
repository ships with build/* containing generated files. So I have
excluded those in a dfsg tarball.

However now we must build those files ourselves. The way it is done is with
gulp:

build: node_modules
@./node_modules/.bin/gulp build

gulp is not in debian and it would take a lot of work to get it there:

http://paste.ubuntu.com/8352160/

Additionally, all the gulp stuff is apparently calling browserify, so that
build-dependency is dragged in too! x.x

What can we do?
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