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

[Bastien ROUCARIES]

On Mon, Sep 24, 2018 at 10:43 AM Pirate Praveen
<praveen at onenetbeyond.org> wrote:
>
> On 9/24/18 2:09 PM, Bastien ROUCARIES wrote:
> >> I think it is over engineering and making things unnecessarily complex. This can be a fallback option if a separate version of type definition is required instead of the centrally shipped version.
> > And how to you keep version in sync ?
>
> You always ship the latest in node-typescript-types package and ship
> separate definitions only in case something don't work. I don't think we
> have to keep it strictly in sync with the node modules. For example, we
> have nodejs 8.11.2 but @types/node only has 8.10.x.

I believe it is quite fragile compared to
https://wiki.debian.org/Javascript/GroupSourcesTutorial