[Pkg-javascript-devel] Typescript and Debian directories

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Quoting Jérémy Lal (2021-05-05 11:04:07)
> Hello, i'm all right patching typescript, but that would mean local
> installs of typescript
> wouldn't find the modules anyway.
> So... do you know if a local user install of typescript is going to want to
> discover global modules ?
> If not, then it's okay to patch typescript and i think i can do it...

If possible to patch Typescript into supporting shared resources, then 
that would certainly be the best approach, I think.

Seems upstream fails to understand the value of supporting shared 
resources. If we can reasonably maintain a patch to do it locally in 
Debian, then it would ease both building and using Typescript in Debian 
now, and be an offer for upstream to adopt if they change their minds.

Patching Debian to include magic path names easing local building by 
tricking the tools into seeing shared resources as being local sounds 
bad to me: Upstream is then deliberately being tricked into working in 
ways unsupported upstream, and while we only care about using it for 
build routines we expose it to our users as well, which might cause 
side-effects for them that then noone have any attention towards.

If we cannot (or will not) maintain a general deviation of Typescript to 
support shared resources, then we should contain tricks to only affect 
build environment, not "leak" into our user-facing environments (if 
possible).

Great that you tried, Yadd.  Great if you can succeed, Jérémy :-)

 - Jonas

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