Kodi Chorus2 web interface (RFH)

[Balint Reczey]

Hi Ross,

Ross Gammon <rossgammon at mail.dk> wrote:

> Hi Bálint,
> 
> On 01/17/2017 03:28 PM, Bálint Réczey wrote:
>> Dear Team,
>> 
>> I have started packaging Kodi's new web interface but it looks like
>> there are many missing build dependencies.
>> 
>> We are in soft freeze thus the package would not have been accepted,
>> but it could have been uploaded as an additional source tarball for
>> kodi like the patched libdvd* sources are handled now.
>> 
>> If someone could figure out how to build the web interface without all
>> the grunt npm packages and Ruby gems it could make Kodi be released
>> with a functional web interface.
>> 
>> Any help is appreciated in packaging. Even if we miss Stretch, I will
>> keep backporting new Kodi versions and having a working web interface
>> earlier would be nice.
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> Balint
> 
> Can you point me to where I can find out which node-* packages and gems
> are needed?
> 
> I have been working on node packages for other software, and most of the
> grunt stuff has been uploaded by Pirate Praveen in the last few months.
> 
> I was also thinking of packaging another couple of gems that I was
> forced to install locally recently.
> 
> So if there was a list, I might be able to help share some of the load
> for Buster.

Thanks for your help in advance!

I have started packaging and the WIP version can be found here:
https://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-multimedia/kodi-addon-webinterface-chorus2.git

The missing grunt packages are listed in d/control:
https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-multimedia/kodi-addon-webinterface-chorus2.git/tree/debian/control

Cheers,
Balint

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