[Pkg-javascript-devel] RFH: puppeteer tests

[Yadd]

On 14/01/2022 09:41, Yadd wrote:
> On 14/01/2022 08:09, Andrius Merkys wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> Martina and I have been working on packaging puppeteer, an API to
>> control Chrome over the DevTools Protocol. Martina got the package
>> building on sbuild, but we are stuck with tests. Most likely the blocker
>> is incorrect combination of extcopies/extlinks, but we are not able to
>> sort it out ourselves. Thus we would be very grateful if someone more
>> experienced could give it a look.
>>
>> Packaging of puppeteer is on salsa [1], be sure to use 'run-tests'
>> branch, as 'master' has tests disabled.
>>
>> puppeteer depends on devtools-protocol (in NEW). It has to be built from
>> salsa [2] too, branch 'package-v0.0.869402', as I uploaded an earlier
>> version to NEW.
>>
>> Bonus issue is de-vendoring of mitt, which is used for puppeteer tests.
>> In turn, mitt depends on esm, and this seems nontrivial to package.
>> However, most likely it has to be done sooner or later, just to be able
>> to run puppeteer tests.
>>
>> [1] https://salsa.debian.org/js-team/node-puppeteer
>> [2] https://salsa.debian.org/js-team/node-devtools-protocol
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I started to modify your package. The problem for tests is that it 
> launches chromium, then this requires X server.

and package needs a local chrome (not chromium), automatically 
downloaded during `npm install`