Hi Joe, On 05/06/26 7:47 am, Joseph Nahmias wrote: > On Mon, Jun 01, 2026 at 06:55:49AM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: >> Quoting [email protected] (2026-06-01 05:44:27) >>> >>> * Package name : railroad-diagrams >>> Version : 1.0.0 >>> * URL : https://github.com/tabatkins/railroad-diagrams >>> Programming Lang: JavaScript, Python >>> Description : library to draw railroad syntax diagrams >> >> This project is already packaged as python3-railroad-diagrams. > > Thanks for pointing this out! I missed it because I was only interested / > looking for the nodejs version. > >> I suggest you coordinate with the maintainers to extend that to also >> cover the JavaScript port. > > I did some investigation of the current python package. It seems the > source is taken from PyPI -- not github. Thus it doesn't include the > javascript module, only the python one. It's also missing the python test > file and some examples.
In that case, maybe it makes sense to notify the upstream author about this and also ask them to tag releases on github? > Therefore, I propose to update the package in the following ways: > > * use the source from github HEAD (version: 3.0.1+20260511+git736dec7) > * change the source pkg name from python-railroad-diagrams to > just railroad-diagrams > * keep DPT as the Maintainer; add myself as Uploader > * refresh the packaging of the python module > * run upstream's test python script during build and as autopkgtest > * add a second binary package for the nodejs module SGTM. > I've started a fork of the existing repo in my jello namespace on salsa > https://salsa.debian.org/jello/railroad-diagrams to begin this work. > > I'm interested in thoughts from the current maintainers in the DPT as > well as from the JS-Team. Does this plan make sense? Is there precedent / > prior-art for this? Current maintainer here. As such, I am not keen in maintaining this package and have just dropped myself from uploaders in the git repo. As you filed an ITP, please consider to add yourself and proceed w an upload. Thanks, Nilesh
