[Pkg-javascript-devel] Bug#961111: add an option to specify build-only components in watch

[Pirate Praveen]

Package: pkg-js-tools
Version: 0.9.36
Severity: wishlist

Currently we use debian/build_modules to add build only modules, but 
that is manual and we cannot use uscan like other components. Can we 
add an option to watch file to specify a component is build-only and 
need not be installed in the binary package?

For example katex-fonts in node-katex, I'd like to use uscan to 
download the compnent, but I don't want it installed in node_modules in 
the final package. May be an option to specify which directory it 
should be symlinked to, for example, in this case, I want it symlinked 
to submodules and not node_modules (node_modules can be the default if 
nothing is specified).