Le lun. 7 oct. 2024 à 19:18, Antoine Beaupré <anar...@debian.org> a écrit :
> On 2024-10-07 18:58:38, Jérémy Lal wrote: > > Le lun. 7 oct. 2024 à 18:27, Antoine Beaupré <anar...@debian.org> a > écrit : > > > >> Hi! > >> > >> I'm part of the golang team (in CC) which is responsible for packaging > >> the Prometheus package, a golang-based monitoring system. Recently, > >> upstream switched from a "classic" HTML-based interface to a rather > >> more... complicated JavaScript frontend built with React. > >> > >> We've looked at packaging this in Debian (#1083100, also in CC), and > >> quickly got worried about the number of dependencies we'd need to > >> package. > >> > >> Do you have advice on how to move forward on this? > >> > >> I was wondering if there's some magic command we can run to actually get > >> a more solid view on the tasks needed? Like a command that would parse > >> the package.json and report which packages are missing from Debian, > >> which have WNPP bugs, etc... > >> > >> How involved is it to package React stuff? > >> > >> How maintainable is it in the long run in Debian? > >> > >> Thanks for any advice! > > > > Can you give the link to the upstream package.json file that pulls the > > dependencies, thanks. > > Of course! I believe it is: > > > https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus/blob/main/web/ui/mantine-ui/package.json > > ... which is called from: > > https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus/blob/main/web/ui/package.json > > i *think* the "react-app/" directory is the older implementation, which > can be disregarded. > Thanks, I think the proper method will be to mut-bundle as much, and as cleanly, as possible, with most packages not re-exported to /usr/share/nodejs, because it is just asking for trouble. There are tools to help in that task, like pkgjs-tools' add-node-component. It requires some skills. I can help, but I don't have time to do it entirely. It's going to be difficult to get this into trixie, unless someone works really hard on it right now. -- We won't have a theory of everything without a theory of consciousness - David J. Chalmers
