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

[Pirate Praveen]

On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 11:03 am, Xavier <yadd at debian.org> wrote:
> Le 20/05/2020 à 10:53, Pirate Praveen a écrit :
>>  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).
> 
> Hi,
> 
> you can do it: if you list components in debian/nodejs/submodules, 
> only
> listed components will be installed

Thanks, that works. Would it be a lot of work to do it in watch as a 
new option? Just checking if it can be done at single place easily.