[Pkg-javascript-devel] Bug#835581: Possible fix for the FTBFS in node-es6-promise

[Santiago Vila]

On Sun, 28 Aug 2016, Julien Puydt wrote:

> I don't have a stretch box handy, but /usr/bin/compile-modules comes from the
> node-es6-module-transpiler package. Testing has node-es6-module-transpiler
> version 0.10.0.1, which depends on node-ast-util (in testing 0.6.0-1), which
> depends on node-ast-types (in testing 0.9.0-1).
> 
> Things get interesting there : node-ast-types 0.9.0-1 has no RC bug for
> itself, but triggers errors in other packages! See #835704, about a FTBFS in
> node-ast-util, for example.
> 
> You don't have the typical message of this problem (a missing ./fork module),
> but my guess is that whenever an exception is triggered in compile-modules,
> that is treated by printing the help, thus hiding the real issue.
> 
> I prepared node-ast-types 0.9.0-2 for unstable today -- can you check it makes
> your FTBFS for node-es6-promise vanish?

Hello.

node-es6-promise builds fine on stretch right now.

However, if this was not really a bug in node-es6-promise, it would be
better (instead of just closing it) if we could reassign to the proper
package and also send "affects 835581 src:node-es6-promise" to
control at b.d.o. This way, this bug will still be shown in the web page
for node-es6-promise, as it made the package to FTBFS.

Thanks.