[Pkg-javascript-devel] JS roadmap for Debian 12

[Pirate Praveen]

On Sun, Oct 16 2022 at 09:37:31 AM +02:00:00 +02:00:00, Yadd 
<yadd at debian.org> wrote:
> On 16/10/2022 09:13, julien.puydt at gmail.com wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> Le jeudi 13 octobre 2022 à 15:06 +0200, Yadd a écrit :
>>> there are some pending changes (typescript 4.8, rollup 3,
>>> ajv/schema-utils,...). IMO, the more important is Typescript update
>>> (rollup 2.19.1 looks able to build rollup-3 packages, schema-utils
>>> update may break many things).
>>> 
>>> Are you OK ? Is someone able to launch a massive rebuild for
>>> typescript reverse dependencies ?
>> 
>> 
>> Concerning node-typescript, I haven't updated it in unstable for a
>> while:
>> (1) a few of depending packages are broken even without updating it ;
>> (2) updating it would break a bunch of others ;
>> (3) I'm a bit short on time for JS packages these days to fix all of
>> those.
>> 
>> I still pushed to experimental, explaining what I had seen broken.
>> 
>> I'll do a test-run locally to write new lists of (1) and (2): it
>> doesn't take that much time. [Or more precisely, much of my time! My
>> box does work for hours...]
>> 
>> I get the initial list of packages using:
>>    ssh mirror.ftp-master.debian.org "dak rm -Rn node-typescript"
>> so hopefully the above lists are complete.
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> 
>> J.Puydt
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I fixed a lot of previously broken things this month. I thinks JS 
> packages are now in a good state and we can update typescript and see 
> what is broken on next massive rebuild.
> So if Team agrees, let's upload typescript 4.8 to unstable.

I don't agree that is a good idea. We should first get a list of things 
broken and evaluate if we can fix or ignore the failures before we 
proceed. This is the standard transition procedure followed for all the 
breaking changes.