Dear mentors, python hackers, Debian developers I'm maintaining buildbot[1] packages for quite some time. While current packaging of this application is not that hard, the upcoming 0.9 release includes a new web interface organized as python module called 'buildbot_www'. This module is in fact an AngularJS web application that build-depends on nodejs and npm. The current procedure of release this module implies following steps:
1) git clone git://github.com/buildbot/buildbot 2) git checkout -tb nine origin/nine 3) cd www 4) python setup.py sdist The last command performs the actual building of the python module: 1) npm/bower downloads necessary Javascript libraries (download 152Mb of js libraries in .tar.gz) 2) the main (minified/uglified) Javascript file is generated 3) other js/css resources are generated using tools like coffeescript and less 4) html files are generated as well In the end these files are included in the resulting python module tarball. It is totally valid python sdist tarball that can be packaged using ordinary rules of Python packaging. But according to the Debian policy this tarball cannot be considered as a source tarball since it contains generated code, minified js/css etc. I have raised the discussion on the upstream mailing list[2]. Their intention is understandable: current approach allows python developers to work on python code whithout bothering with nodejs/npm while frontend devs could easily hack web iterface without need of python backend. Thanks to the conversation on IRC with Ben Finney, I've detected some potential ideas that should be addressed upstream: 1) provide valid (from Debian's PoV) source tarball for buildbot_www Python module 2) have separate source tarball with bundled javascript dependencies that can be handled by DebSrc 3.0 format as additional upstream tarball; also make possible to use this external tarball in the build process without need of internet connection, It would be possible to replace external js deps with ones already packaged for Debian as well, for example. What steps can be done in such case? What can be done better? Please share your thoughts. I believe, there would appear more similar projects in the future, so the conversation should be useful for a lot more people. Thanks. [1]: http://buildbot.net [2]: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.buildbot.devel/9744 -- Best regards, Andriy Senkovych -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAMS_SFKWukZ4Kzekcxg29z=s6jxfwyaquyl8pwn9ceho_aq...@mail.gmail.com
