2015-10-28 15:14 GMT+01:00 Antonio Terceiro <terce...@debian.org>:
> On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 10:32:06PM +0100, Jérémy Lal wrote:
> > 2015-10-27 22:09 GMT+01:00 Antonio Terceiro <terce...@debian.org>:
> >
> > > On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 06:09:00PM +0100, Jérémy Lal wrote:
> > > > Package: autodep8
> > > > Version: 0.2
> > > > Severity: normal
> > > >
> > > > Dear Maintainer,
> > > >
> > > > Please use this one-liner instead
> > > >
> > > > upstream_name=$(python -c "import json;
> > > print(json.load(open('package.json'))['name'])")
> > >
> > > this broke on the very first NodeJS package I went to try it
> (requirejs):
> > >
> > > $ pwd
> > > /tmp/requirejs-2.1.20
> > > $ python -c "import json;
> print(json.load(open('package.json'))['name'])"
> > > Traceback (most recent call last):
> > > File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
> > > KeyError: 'name'
> > >
> > > We probably want to fallback to looking at the source package name?
> >
> >
> > This is the first time i see this.
> > Yes, keeping existing code as fallback seems to be safer.
> >
> > Note that there is something odd with that module...
> >
> > https://github.com/jrburke/r.js
> > https://github.com/jrburke/r.js/commit/40fa066e
> >
> > https://github.com/jrburke/requirejs
> > https://github.com/jrburke/requirejs/commit/a2029ccd
> >
> > So the correct upstream source seems to be requirejs, not r.js.
> > In any case upstream is using a meta-packager (volo) so in this case
> > package.json cannot be trusted (the fact it is available in the git
> > repository is misleading - it shouldn't even be there).
>
> I improved the situation with this commit:
> http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/collab-maint/autodep8.git/commit/
>
> However, even then the actual tests are still just a simple load test.
> It will make sure the dependency chain is ok, and that is it.
>
That's something !
Is there any way we can improve on that? Is `npm run test` a more or
> less standard practice in the Node community?
>
It's `npm test` but it wouldn't work because test are run using the
devDependencies listed in package.json, and many debian packages
have devDependencies that are not available in debian.
Jérémy
