[Pkg-javascript-devel] Archive rebuilds as a service

[Lucas Nussbaum]

Hi,

On 13/10/20 at 18:13 +0200, Xavier wrote:
> Le 13/10/2020 à 17:30, Xavier a écrit :
> > Le 13/10/2020 à 17:17, Lucas Nussbaum a écrit :
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> FYI:
> >> I'm able to run archive rebuilds on a quite regular basis. I do that to
> >> find (and file) FTBFS bugs, but it's also possible to test candidate
> >> changes in Debian (for example, new versions of compilers, interpreters,
> >> or other packages that are common build-depends).
> >>
> >> If that's useful for you or your team, please get in touch with me.
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I think this is very interesting for JS Team
> > 
> >> I'll ask you to provide:
> >>
> >> 1) a script that customizes a chroot. Examples are available at:
> >> https://salsa.debian.org/lucas/collab-qa-tools/-/tree/master/modes
> > 
> > I think we don't need anything special
> > 
> >> 2) a list of source packages to test-build. (if there are many of them
> >> and if it's not trivial to determine the exact set of packages to
> >> test-build, building all of unstable is of course possible)
> > 
> > At least, packages to test are all that build-depends on a JS builder
> > like node-babel7, node-buble, grunt, gulp, rollup or webpack
> 
> Here is a little script to find this list (240 packages)

If this is only for 240 packages, and none of them is particularly
resources-intensive to build, it might be better to organize your own
plan (you probably don't need to spread the build on several machine).
I use sbuild as a basis and can help with getting something set up
locally.

Lucas