[Pkg-javascript-devel] Bug#1007267: Bug#1007267: node-eslint-scope: FTBFS while updating with webpack5: Error: Invalid webpack options

[Jonas Smedegaard]

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Ayoyimika, please beware that this conversation is held via a bugreport.

Please do not reply only to me, but send your reply also to the 
bugreport.

Quoting Ayoyimika Ajibade (2022-03-15 15:19:40)
> pls what is ABI?

Application Binary Interface - i.e. the interface offered by a code 
project for runtime use: 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application_binary_interface

Your patch changes that interface - see NodeJS documentation here: 
https://nodejs.org/api/packages.html#main-entry-point-export

Specifically, NodeJS documentation says this:

> This encapsulation of exports provides more reliable guarantees about 
> package interfaces for tools and when handling semver upgrades for a 
> package.

Apparently, the authors of eslint-scope chose to treat referencer.js as 
a _private_ library.  Maybe they did that for a good reason.


> waiting for upstream to patch node-eslint-scope to expose the 
> directory in the package.json export fields may take some time and 
> almost all webpack5 reverse dependencies are failing because of that.

We want code that is _maintainable_ for several years.  If you want 
quick dirty hacks then apply those hacks at the _receiving_ end - i.e. 
by hardcoding path to the private library file in webpack or axios or 
whereever exactly it is (wrongly!) expected.


> i think exposing a directory shouldn't be causing any breaking changes.
> here is the patch I will be forwarding upstream:
> https://salsa.debian.org/Ayoyimika/node-eslint-scope/-/commit/b696752c23863d7c98fabcd3da52fcdb945da2b8.patch

Please share that with upstream, so that we can learn their opinion on 
the matter.  We don't need to wait for them to issue a new release, 
maybe their response in the bugreport is enough to convince us.


> >Where did you ask those questions?
> >On our IRC channel?  At our mailinglist?  In a bugreport?
> i asked the question via Matrix

Ah, ok.  Our chat channels/rooms are mostly for casual conversation - if 
you don't get a response there, then try post an email to our 
mailinglist.


Kind regards,

 - Jonas

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