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

[Bastien ROUCARIES]

On Thu, May 17, 2018 at 6:31 AM, Pirate Praveen
<praveen at onenetbeyond.org> wrote:
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> On May 17, 2018 1:32:01 AM GMT+05:30, Julien Puydt <julien.puydt at laposte.net> wrote:
>>Hi,
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>>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
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>>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?
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>>Snark on #debian-js
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> 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})

It will help conflict/replace for virtual package
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