[Pkg-matrix-maintainers] Bug#1003505: node-matrix-js-sdk: FTBFS with webpack5: Unknown option '--output'

[Pirate Praveen]

Control: tags -1 patch

On Tue, 11 Jan 2022 06:21:49 +0100 Caleb Adepitan 
<calebpitan at gmail.com> wrote:
 >
 > Source: node-matrix-js-sdk
 > Version: 9.11.0+~cs9.9.16-1
 > Severity: important
 > Tags: ftbfs
 > User: pkg-javascript-devel at alioth-lists.debian.net
 > Usertags: webpack5
 >
 > Hi,
 >
 > We are starting to build against webpack5 in experimental and the
 > package needed for local build is webpack and node-webpack-source 
from
 > experimental.
 > During a test rebuild, node-matrix-js-sdk was found to fail to build 
in
 > that situation.
 >
 > Relevant part (hopefully):
 >
 > tsc --project Xbase-x
 > grunt --no-color --base=Xloglevel concat uglify
 >  >> Local Npm module "grunt-contrib-jasmine" not found. Is it 
installed?
 >  >> Local Npm module "grunt-coveralls" not found. Is it installed?
 >  >> Local Npm module "grunt-jasmine-node" not found. Is it installed?
 >  >> Local Npm module "grunt-contrib-jshint" not found. Is it 
installed?
 >  >> Local Npm module "grunt-contrib-watch" not found. Is it 
installed?
 >  >> Local Npm module "grunt-contrib-qunit" not found. Is it 
installed?
 >  >> Local Npm module "grunt-contrib-connect" not found. Is it 
installed?
 >  >> Local Npm module "grunt-open" not found. Is it installed?
 >  >> Local Npm module "grunt-saucelabs" not found. Is it installed?
 >  >> Local Npm module "grunt-preprocess" not found. Is it installed?
 >  >> Local Npm module "grunt-contrib-clean" not found. Is it 
installed?
 >
 > Running "concat:dist" (concat) task
 >
 > Running "uglify:dist" (uglify) task
 >  >> 1 file created 8.62KB → 2.78KB
 >
 > Done.
 > # Browser build
 > mkdir -p dist
 > webpack --config debian/webpack.config.js \
 > --entry ./src/browser-index.js \
 > --output ./dist/browser-matrix.js \
 > --mode development
 > [webpack-cli] Error: Unknown option '--output'

This can be fixed by replacing --output ./dist/browser-matrix.js to
--output-path ./dist --output-filename browser-matrix.js