[Pkg-javascript-devel] How to ship DefinitelyTyped's type definitions?

[Bastien ROUCARIES]

On Thu, Jun 21, 2018 at 7:06 AM, Pirate Praveen
<praveen at onenetbeyond.org> wrote:
> On Saturday 19 May 2018 08:08 PM, Bastien ROUCARIES wrote:
>> On Thu, May 17, 2018 at 6:31 AM, Pirate Praveen
>> <praveen at onenetbeyond.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> On May 17, 2018 1:32:01 AM GMT+05:30, Julien Puydt <julien.puydt at laposte.net> wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> Le 16/05/2018 à 17:45, Bastien ROUCARIES a écrit :
>>>>> Can I suggest in all the case something pragmatic ? Could I suggest
>>>>> that package providing types for node-foo should be named
>>>>> nodetypes-foo (without hyphen in order to avoid conflict with node
>>>>> package)
>>>>>
>>>>> If node-foo include type it is only needed to add "Provides:
>>>>> nodetypes-foo (= ${Source:Version})" in node-foo.
>>>>>
>>>>> Can someone suggest a policy file change ?
>>>>>
>>>>> The same tips could be used for libjs-foo lib BTW. I have done that
>>>>> for node-normalize.css for instance. It avoid small package and is
>>>>> ftpmaster friendly
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Good idea, but the question of how to actually provide nodetypes-foo if
>>>> it's only available in DefinitelyTyped's big repository is still open,
>>>> if I don't err?
>>>>
>>>> Snark on #debian-js
>>>
>>> I think just adding it as debian/types, installing it to /usr/lib/nodejs/foo/types and provides nodetypes-foo.
>>
>> Please provides: nodetypes-foo (= ${source:Version})
>
> Can't this be node-types-foo? Then it follows the existing node-
> standard and node-types can be used to filter types packages. This also
> makes it easier for npm2deb, which won't require any special handling
> for this case (when types is a separate package). node-types will be
> only used for types packages, so I don't see any conflict.

No because and unfortunatly some pure node package are named type-is
(debian name node-type-is).

Therefore it is a dead end. Better to add logic in npm

> @types/jquery -> node-types-jquery
> @std/esd - node-std-esm
> @ava/abc -> node-ava-abc
>