[Pkg-javascript-devel] babel7 in a separate package ?

[Bastien ROUCARIES]

On Tue, Feb 25, 2020 at 12:25 PM Jonas Smedegaard <jonas at jones.dk> wrote:
>
> Quoting Pirate Praveen (2020-02-25 10:59:11)
> > On 2020, ഫെബ്രുവരി 25 10:59:35 AM IST, Xavier <yadd at debian.org> wrote:
> > >I think we should publish babel7 in a separate node-babel7: some
> > >package require old babel 6 for build. OK?
> > >
> >
> > It will need maintaining two versions of babel which we should try to avoid.
> >
> > We can have babel 7 in experimental and try to update all packages
> > currently using babel 6 to build with babel 7. Basically how we do
> > every other major version update. At the least we should evaluate how
> > many packages are affected and compare the effort required for both
> > approaches.
>
> I haven't looked at the numbers but just blindly assume that we are
> talking about hundreds of packages needing migration here, each
> requiring a "real" package upload (binNMUs are not supported for
> arch-all packages) and often require patches or changes to patches
> (unlike C library bumps only exceptionally needing changes to code).
>
> I agree that we should not _maintain_ more than a single release of
> babel: We should have Debian _release_ with two major versions of babel
> concurrently!
>
> What worries me is that _all_ users of babel must switch _together_ - I
> fear that it is too complicates, because of the likelihood of many
> unrelated bugs appearing together.
>
> Please package babel7 as a package independent from babel6, and have
> both in unstable concurrently, but also make sure to file a big fat RC
> bug against babel7 to ensure that we don't want to maintain it in a
> release.
>
> Then, when enough packages have switched to support babel7, we can move
> that RC bugreport to be tied to babel6 instead, so that we instead push
> out any packages failing to align with the new World order of babel7.
>
> I find that a much nice development approach than "let's have the whole
> World of babel7 perfected in experimental, and then BOOM! switch over to
> unstable - hoping for zero collateral damage in that revolutionary
> move".

I like this plan, thanks

Bastien
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