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

[Pirate Praveen]

On Fri, Jan 8, 2021 at 12:44 pm, Jonas Smedegaard <jonas at jones.dk> 
wrote:
> I don't understand - how is node-babel7 affected by how yarnpkg 
> declares
> (build-)dependencies against it?
> 

node-babel7 will still be affected by the update-alternatives bug when 
manpages missing.

> 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).

That is tangential to this particular bug. That is an improvement, yes, 
but will not solve this bug without separate binary for @babel/runtime 
module, as it will still pull in node-babel7 and missing man pages will 
trigger this bug.