[Pkg-javascript-devel] Bug#979551: Bug#979551: Bug#979551: node-babel7: update-alternatives set up fails

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Quoting Pirate Praveen (2021-01-08 12:16:20)
> 
> 
> On Fri, Jan 8, 2021 at 12:06 pm, Jonas Smedegaard <jonas at jones.dk> 
> wrote:
> > Quoting Pirate Praveen (2021-01-08 11:55:14)
> >> 
> >> 
> >>  On 2021, ജനുവരി 8 1:16:36 PM IST, Paolo Greppi 
> >> <paolo.greppi at libpf.com> wrote:
> >>  >BTW, why is node-babel7 a run-time dependency of yarnpkg ?
> >>  >Should it not just be a build-dep ?
> >>  >
> >> 
> >> It needs @babel/runtime which is currently part of node-babel7. I 
> >> think yadd already uploaded a version of node-babel7 with separate 
> >> node-babel7-runtime binary package. But it has not cleared NEW yet.
> > 
> > You need not wait for NEW clearance to depend explicitly on required 
> > packages - you need only have the required packages available as 
> > virtual packages.
> > 
> 
> Yes, but changing dependency alone will not solve this issue. When it 
> clears NEW and dependency is updated, this bug will be fixed for 
> yarnpkg, but node-babel7 will still be affected.

I don't understand - how is node-babel7 affected by how yarnpkg declares 
(build-)dependencies against it?

What I suggest is to improve the package yarnpkg to replace any runtime 
and build-time package relations on node-babel7 to instead be on each 
actually needed node-$module package, virtual or not.

(and yes, it should work fine for autopkgtest as well - a previous 
failure I caused was due to lack of appending (>= 7) for a virtual 
package also provided by older babel6 package).


 - Jonas

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