[Pkg-javascript-devel] bootstrapping rollup

[Paolo Greppi]

Hi team,

we are now stuck at multiple location because rollup is in contrib.

My understanding is that it is stuck in contrib because it needs itself to build.
It currently downloads itself with npm in the build process.

I found this piece of wisdom on circular dependencies:
https://wiki.debian.org/DebianBootstrap
"The generic way to deal with all of these is 'profile builds', where a version of the package
is built with lesser functionality and thus a smaller dependency tree.
This allows the depending package to then be built, then for the 'stageN' package to be built normally."

Pravi did the ITP and all the work (thanks!), but it is more likely we can find solution together.

I propose this thread as a starting point.

Paolo