[Pkg-javascript-devel] Bug#929829: gulp 4 cannot build node-babel 7 - Cannot convert undefined or null to object

[Pirate Praveen]

On 2019, ഒക്‌ടോബർ 6 3:38:47 AM IST, Evgeny Kapun <abacabadabacaba at gmail.com> wrote:
>> [15:37:17] Cannot convert undefined or null to object
>
>After checking the code, I found the root cause of this error.

Awesome! We have been trying to find the root cause for some time.

>The error is caused by NPM package now-and-later, which is included in
>Debian package gulp version 4.0.2-2. The version included is 1.0.0. It
>should be upgraded to at least version 2.0.0. Gulp will not work with
>version 1.0.0 due to incompatible API change.
>After replacing the package with version 2.0.1 downloaded from NPM, the
>error disappears.

I will update this.

>Also, perhaps all those packages bundled with gulp should be in
>separate Debian packages instead.

No, ftp masters don't like so many small node packages (lots of node packages were rejected from NEW). If some module is significantly large and used by many other packages or has a complex build system, then only we should package it separately.
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