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

[Julien Puydt]

Hi,

Le 23/09/2018 à 16:44, Pirate Praveen a écrit :
> On 9/23/18 5:13 PM, Julien Puydt wrote:
>> What do you think of the attached script? It assumes the upstream
>> DefinitelyTyped tree is in "DefinitelyTyped.upstream" as it's the layout
>> I use for my experiment, and generates a "control" file and a bunch of
>> "node-types-*.install" files.
> 
> Did you check node-typescript-types source? It just downloads the
> tarballs from npm registry. I think that is a better approach (only ship
> the definitions we want instead of all) and instead of creating many
> more binary packages, a provides should be sufficient (if at all required).
> 

Did you see the script was detecting which packages are in Debian, and 
only then shipped them? Here I have:

jpuydt at nox:~/Debian/DefinitelyTyped$ python3 build_control.py
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
490 node-types-* generated and 4266 not considered

so yes, the source tree has everything, but it's only packaging as 
binary the necessary files...

In my first mail I think proposed to ship what is really often a *single 
file* within each package separately ; that sounds the least complex (no 
need for fancy features in a fakeupstream, no need for a complex script 
to build thousands of packages...).

jpuydt on irc.debian.org