[Pkg-javascript-devel] Rebuilding of nodejs reverse dependencies

[Jérémy Lal]

On Tue, Mar 15, 2022 at 11:42 AM Jérémy Lal <kapouer at melix.org> wrote:

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> On Tue, Mar 15, 2022 at 11:32 AM Nilesh Patra <nilesh at riseup.net> wrote:
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>> On 3/15/22 5:21 AM, Jérémy Lal wrote:
>> > i've setup a specific salsa ci pipeline for this:
>> > https://salsa.debian.org/js-team/nodejs/-/pipelines/358409 <
>> https://salsa.debian.org/js-team/nodejs/-/pipelines/358409>
>> >
>> > As you can see, it has jobs for rebuilding reverse build-depends.
>> > It is not meant to be triggered continuously (because it consumes a lot
>> of resources),
>> > one has to trigger it by hand, which I have done just before.
>> >
>> > I'd extend the list of jobs to the list of 1677 source packages
>> build-depending on nodejs, but
>> > it might consume too much time and space on salsa-ci...
>> > [...]
>>
>> This is cool, but
>> Please consider asking salsa CI admins if it is okay to trigger builds
>> for large volumes of reverse dependencies.
>> Several months back (IIRC) something similar happened in the ruby-team
>> and the runners choked because of that
>> and even salsa went down :)
>>
>
> Yes,
> https://salsa.debian.org/salsa/support/-/issues/291
>
> I'm waiting for an answer.
> I only tried the rebuild of ~30 reverse build-deps of libnode-dev for now.
>

The answer from the salsa admin is no.
I'll do the minimal solution, then: fix libnode-dev reverse build-deps,
and let other breakage happen in unstable.

Jérémy
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