[Pkg-javascript-devel] Advice on packaging a terminal application that uses yarn and webpack

[Julian Gilbey]

On Wed, Apr 13, 2022 at 08:22:45PM +0200, Jérémy Lal wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 13, 2022 at 6:32 PM Julian Gilbey <julian at d-and-j.net> wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I was looking into packaging spyder-terminal, a plugin for Spyder (a
> > [...]
> 
> Ignore package-lock.json
> Check package.json dependencies and devDependencies.
> Good news ! They are all in Debian already !

That's amazing, thanks!

> (besides promise-polyfill which is obsolete and should be patched away).

Do you mean just removing that line from package.json?  I can't find
any mention of promise-polyfill anywhere else in the package (except
package-lock.json and yarn.lock).

> Bad news :( xterm.js debian package needs help.

Oh :(  That's beyond what I can do, I'm afraid.

> Also there are tools to help the process of debianizing: npm2deb, dh-make-node.
> They are not perfect, but they can create some default debian/ dir.
> Jérémy

Ooo, I'll take a look, thanks!

Best wishes,

   Julian