[Pkg-javascript-devel] Shipping DefinitelyTyped definitions : one binary package per definition?

[Bastien ROUCARIES]

Le jeu. 9 août 2018 à 22:11, Julien Puydt <julien.puydt at laposte.net> a
écrit :

> Hi,
>
> Le 09/08/2018 à 09:19, Julien Puydt a écrit :
> > Le 08/08/2018 à 23:35, Julien Puydt a écrit :
> >> I'm not convinced it's the best way to handle the situation, but here
> >> is a simple script I wrote to toy with the idea...
> >>
> >> (my checkout of upstream DefinitelyTyped is in /tmp, so you might want
> >> to adapt the script to your own situation)
> >
> > Another toy script, this time in Python, and smarter since it creates
> > only packages for what we clearly have in Debian (the test is rough!).
> >
> > (The final control file is 4k lines instead of 42k for the naive js
> > version)
> >
>
> No comment, still toying around ; another Python script, this time a
> single binary package is built, but for each node-foo in Debian where
> DefinitelyTyped has foo, a virtual node-types-foo is provided.
>
> That looks quite neat, in fact :
>
> - just one node-types-definitelytyped real package would provide all
> necessary node-types-foo ones, so if a package needs the @types/foo, it
> can depend on node-types-foo and the right one is pulled in ;
>

No

>
> - when foo upstream includes the type declarations, then node-foo will
> be able to also provide node-types-foo itself, and later on when
> DefinitelyTyped stops shipping it, the newer node-types-definitelytyped
> won't provide node-types-foo anymore so the transition will be quite
> smooth.
>
> What are your opinions
>

Answer torrow

>
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