[Pkg-javascript-devel] Bug#958868: Bug#958868: Bug#958868: charcodes component in node-babel7 ftbfs in buster-backports

[Pirate Praveen]

On Sun, Apr 26, 2020 at 10:22 pm, Pirate Praveen 
<praveen at onenetbeyond.org> wrote:
> 
> Control: tags -1 help
> 
> On Sun, Apr 26, 2020 at 11:52 am, Pirate Praveen 
> <praveen at onenetbeyond.org> wrote:
>> Package: node-babel7
>> Version: 7.4.5-2
>> Severity: important
>> 
>> When building node-babel7 for fasttrack.debian.net (like 
>> buster-backports but some packages taken from unstable or 
>> experimental) build failed.
>> 
>> Probably adding node-babel 6 as build dependency will fix this. Or 
>> we may need to embed charcodes that works with babel 7.
>> 
>> Not sure if change introduced in 7.4.5-3 will fix this.
> 
> I tried adding node-babel-types 6 as build dependency and adding a 
> link to node_modules but that was not it.
> 
> I also tried to backport nodejs 10.20.1 but failed with that also.
> 
> I have created a repo at https://people.debian.org/~praveen/babel7/ 
> with all dependencies currently in backport-new if someone wants to 
> reproduce this error. node-babel7 deb was built in sid.
> 
> This is the sbuild command I use to build,
> 
> sbuild -A -s --force-orig-source -c buster-amd64-sbuild 
> --extra-repository='deb http://deb.debian.org/debian buster-backports 
> main' --extra-repository='deb 
> http://incoming.debian.org/debian-buildd buildd-buster-backports 
> main' --extra-repository='deb 
> http://HTTPS////people.debian.org/~praveen/babel7/ buster-backports 
> main' --extra-repository-key=<path to key file>/praveen.key.new.asc 
> --build-dep-resolver=aptitude -d buster-backports --no-run-lintian
> 
> and not just charcodes build but babel-polyfill also fails

I was able to build this using npm build profile (babel 7 installed via 
npm i). Since rebuild using the built deb works on sid but not on 
buster-backports, I think it is a case of looser dependency which gets 
selected automatically on sid but fails on buster-backports.