Re: shiny-server in debian

[Andrius Merkys <merkys@debian.org>]

Hi Eric,

On 2022-03-23 16:25, Eric Brown wrote:
> Thank you Andrius, Andreas et al. for your work in getting
> node-sockjs-client in Debian testing. It appears that shiny-server
> (https://salsa.debian.org/science-team/shiny-server) may now have just
> one dependency left - node-rewire, which I'm not sure is actually
> required to build as it is for CI/development. Also note despite the
> warning for node-stable it appears to be packaged
> (https://packages.debian.org/sid/node-stable).

Revisiting shiny-server, I have turned on the build time tests to have a
better understanding of what is left to be done. Tests now fail due to
missing rewire:

   debian/rules override_dh_auto_test
make[1]: Entering directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>'
mocha test

Error: Cannot find module 'rewire'

Maybe tests using rewire could be ignored for now. Yet I would very much
want to run the tests, as this would be a great way to find out whether
shiny-server works as packaged for Debian.

> There have been many interested parties in packaging shiny-server in
> Debian over the past few years. I wonder if anyone has the time to
> revisit now that (all?) the dependencies are in Debian? I
> unfortunately lack the skills for this.

I can give it a glance. However, as I have never used shiny-server
before, I do not think there is much I can do apart from checking the tests.

Best,
Andrius