[Pkg-javascript-devel] Removing babel 6: Call for help

[Pirate Praveen]

On Wed, May 6, 2020 at 8:26 pm, Pirate Praveen 
<praveen at onenetbeyond.org> wrote:
> You can see the status on migration at 
> https://wiki.debian.org/Javascript/Nodejs/Transitions/Babel7
> 
> Roughly 33 of them are reverse build dependencies of 
> node-rollup-plugin-babel, node-gulp-babel, node-grunt-babel and 
> node-babel-loader (only node-babel-loader and its reverse build 
> dependencies is remaining in this list).

For node-babel-loader, I'm planning to upload 8.x once I fix 
node-handlebars, some of the failed packages are not in testing and not 
well maintained, I have filed bugs for them. For node-yarnpkg, I think 
we can ignore the error (the build is passing anyway).

> Roughly 50 of them were direct build dependency on src:node-babel and 
> 10 of them fixed already.

This has been reduced to 4 more to be fixed. But we found more packages 
to be fixed for complete removal of all babel 6 packages which are now 
added to the wiki page.

More todo: 11 runtime reverse dependencies of node-babel 7 (some of 
them could be removed). 5 reverse build dependencies of node-babylon 
and 5 reverse build dependencies for 
node-babel-plugin-add-module-exports.