[Pkg-javascript-devel] Bug#973741: Bug#973741: gitlab: Yarn hasn't been able to find a cache folder it can use

[Xavier]

Le 28/11/2020 à 20:28, Pirate Praveen a écrit :
> On Thu, 19 Nov 2020 23:50:24 +0530 Pirate Praveen
> <praveen at onenetbeyond.org> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Nov 19, 2020 at 18:58, Xavier <yadd at debian.org> wrote:
>> > we opened bugs to upstream repo and are waiting for...
>>
>> I don't think upstream will make any significant changes to 1.x branch
>> any more. Someone who want to see yarn in debian bullseye will have to
>> fix it.
> 
> As per https://dev.to/arcanis/introducing-yarn-2-4eh1 yarn 1.x is
> officially in maintenance mode.
> 
> Quoting from above:
> 
> "What will happen to the legacy codebase?
> 
> Yarn 1.22 will be released next week. Once done, the 1.x branch will
> officially enter maintenance mode - meaning that it won't receive
> further releases from me except when absolutely required to patch
> vulnerabilities. New features will be developed exclusively against Yarn
> 2."
> 
> And there is no way to separately install yarn 2, you have to install
> yarn 1.x to get newer versions of yarn.
> 
> Quoting again,
> "The yarn package on npm will not change; we will distribute further
> version using the new yarn set version command."
> 
> So some options I can think,
> 
> 1. Port yarn 1.x to build with babel 7 (but this has not been successfull)
> 2. Try to run ES6 code directly somehow, may be with newer nodejs and
> patches. I think Paolo tried this option, not sure what happened.
> 3. Build it using 'deb
> https://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian/20200502T085134Z sid main'
> (the last version that builds in sid) and embed the built files in the
> package (as two steps, like we bootstrap babel, rollup etc). This will
> mean, we will have to move it to contrib. I prefer shipping yarn in
> contrib to missing it in bullseye.
> 
> Also can someone help me with a patch for node-mkdirp 1.0? I tried but
> could not figure it out, I looked at some of the packages ported by
> yadd, but this one is using a different syntax.

Hi, just to replace mkdirp by mkdirp-classic in src/util/fs.js

> We can't build it in current sid, but create a chroot from the above
> snapshot and run dpkg-buildpackage.
> 
> sudo debootstrap sid /srv/chroot/debian-sid-20200502T085134Z
> https://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian/20200502T085134Z/
> 
> I manually installed node-mkdirp and reverse dependencies to test the
> built package.
> 
> We will have to do a binary included upload (it can't migrate to testing
> because of babel 6 requirement anyway).
> 
>