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

[Pirate Praveen]

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.
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