[Pkg-javascript-devel] Help needed for a backport

[Mike Gabriel]

Hi Gunnar,

On  Di 15 Okt 2013 00:06:37 CEST, Gunnar Wolf wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I tried this same query on the IRC channel, but failed due to get a
> reply... Maybe the timezone? Anyway:
>
> I'm making a backport of Owncloud, and
> am... Almost-almost-almost-almost there.  But I bit a problem... Worth
> pleading for this group's help. Or at least, opinion.
>
> Owncloud is a PHP application. I was too trigger-happy, and uploaded
> it some ~10 days ago(?) to backports, as its installation was dead
> easy on a system I have it running...  ...only to find it bundles (as
> so many other PHP applications) a lot of libraries and stuff, which
> have been very thoroughly plucked out by the pkg-owncloud team,
> replacing them by the package in question. So, my package was
> effectively uninstallable on arrival.
>
> Now... I checked and packaged *most* of what was needed, but am
> missing two packages, which depend on stuff too large for me to
> attempt and package:
>
>  • libjs-pdf (which build-depends on nodejs)
>  • libjs-chosen (which depends on coffeescript)
>
> ...I don't want to package those large bodies of code I have never
> touched or understood. Any advice?
>
> libjs-chosen *is* compiled to Javascript, so I have not much way to
> solve it. But libjs-pdf is only in some way "mangled" (beyond what I
> could understand, trying to redo by hand what "nodejs make generic"
> would do) at build time.

I have just returned from VAC and will continue looking at the  
dependency stack (nodejs, coffeescript, node-uglifyjs) during this week.

Mike
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