[Pkg-javascript-devel] Rebuilding of nodejs reverse dependencies

[Jérémy Lal]

On Tue, Feb 15, 2022 at 4:19 PM Lucas Nussbaum <lucas at debian.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On 14/01/22 at 01:46 +0100, Ayoyimika Ajibade wrote:
> > Hello Lucas!
> >
> > Am an outreachy intern working on transitioning of nodejs16, in respect
> to
> > what you needed to help us with rebuilding
> > https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2020/10/msg00097.html  here is
> > the needed script you asked for
> >
> > 1. the script that customizes a chroot
> >
> > apt install nodejs/experimental && apt install libicu-dev/experimental
> > (the packages needed for local build of nodejs from experimental)
> > reverse-depends -b nodejs (to get a list of a build dependencies of
> nodejs)
> >
> > 2.  we would like to rebuild all reverse dependencies of nodejs16
>

Good news: the current problems are listed here
https://release.debian.org/britney/pseudo-excuses-experimental.html#nodejs

Sorry for the late comment, but transitioning to nodejs 16 is going to be
difficult
with libicu being stuck in experimental.
That's why i uploaded nodejs 14 but it is waiting in NEW...

Given the amount of packages (~ 2000) and the fact that it is mostly
> packages that are fast to build, isn't that something that can be done
> on a powerful single machine?
>

There are tools to do that
https://salsa.debian.org/ruby-team/meta
https://github.com/Debian/ratt
(i am attempting to use that one right now)

Surely they need sbuild to be setup
https://wiki.debian.org/Packaging/sbuild

Jérémy
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