[Pkg-javascript-devel] Bug#924807: Bug#924807: Bug#924807: Bug#924807: Bugs come from conflict between node-uglify and node-uglify-js

[Xavier]

Le 18/03/2019 à 06:19, Xavier a écrit :
> Le 18/03/2019 à 00:02, Jonas Smedegaard a écrit :
>> Quoting Jonas Smedegaard (2019-03-17 23:48:57)
>>> Quoting Xavier (2019-03-17 23:12:51)
>>>> Control: reassign 924807 uglify-js
>>>> Control: reassign 924809 uglify-js
>>>> Control: merge 924807 924809
>>>>
>>>> Bug seems to come from conflict between
>>>> https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/uglify-js and
>>>> https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/uglifyjs: webpack can't now be installed
>>>> with uglifyjs
>>>
>>> Problem is packages depending on uglifyjs and webpack together: webpack 
>>> depends indirectly on node-uglify 2.x, whereas uglifyjs is either a 
>>> virtual package provided by node-uglify 2.x or (since recently) a real 
>>> package depending on node-uglyfy-js 3.x.
>>>
>>> Yes, the problem emerged when node-uglify was introduced as a real 
>>> package, but the fix is for those packages depending on uglifyjs and 
>>> webpack together to depend on node-uglify 2.x instead of the virtual 
>>> package.
>>>
>>> Please revert these reassignments: This cannot be fixed in uglifyjs 3.x.
>>
>> Put differently, the problem is packages depending both unversioned and 
>> transitively versioned on uglifyjs - that works only as long as the 
>> transitive dependency happens to be newest major release of uglifyjs.
>>
>>  - Jonas
> 
> List of packages that are affected by this change:
> 
> node-uglify
> Build Reverse Depends:
>   ...
> 
> node-uglify
> Reverse Depends:
>   node-uglifyjs-webpack-plugin
>   emscripten
>   python3-webassets
>   python-webassets
>   uglifyjs
>   node-uglify-js
>   python3-livereload
>   python-livereload
>   node-with
>   node-grunt-contrib-uglify
>   node-transformers
>   lava-dev
>   node-dryice
>   node-constantinople

If I understand (but maybe I'm wrong), this means that in buster it is
not possible to have uglifyjs installed with one of these 14 packages or
their dependencies (`apt-cache rdepends --recurse node-uglify` returns
several thousands package names).