[Pkg-javascript-devel] Bug#983190: datatables.js: upstream versions >1.10.21 do not build with Debian's closure-compiler

[Sascha Steinbiss]

Source: datatables.js
Severity: normal


If you are wondering why there haven't been any updates lately, I am sad
to announce that
current versions of datatables.js does not build anymore with the old
version of
closure-compiler in Debian. So far (up to 1.10.21) I managed to keep it
building
but we now have reached a point where some of the features used by
upstream start
to confuse the parser to the point of bailing out.
This is a log of the build for the current latest upstream version:

  DataTables build (1.10.23) - branch: master

  JS
  JSHint not installed at /usr/bin/jshint - skipping
    JS compressing jquery.dataTables.js
      File size: 83936
    JS compressing dataTables.bootstrap5.js
      File size: 2058
    JS compressing dataTables.bootstrap4.js
      File size: 2098
    JS compressing dataTables.bootstrap.js
      File size: 1979
    JS compressing dataTables.bulma.js
/tmp/jquery-datatables.2247.HN3wa/dataTables.bulma.js:170: ERROR - Parse
error. missing ; before statement
	let nav = $('<nav class="pagination" role="navigation"
aria-label="pagination"><ul class="pagination-list"></ul></nav>');
	    ^
  [...]

  CSS
    CSS compressing dataTables.bootstrap5.css
Error: Invalid CSS after "both": expected expression (e.g. 1px, bold),
was ";"
        on line 7 of
/build/datatables.js-1.10.23+dfsg/build/../built/css/dataTables.bootstrap5.css
  Use --trace for backtrace.
      File size: 0

I have seen #916145 and I am wondering what to do. Since I'm not a JS guy I
can't say if (or for how long) we might be able to patch our way around
this.
Otherwise it looks like we're going to be stuck with 1.10.21 for the
time being.

Cheers
Sascha

[1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=916145