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

[Yadd]

On 16/10/2022 13:25, Pirate Praveen wrote:
> 
> 
> 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.

All fixed, only 4/5 packages broken by tsc update itself.