Re: shiny-server in debian
Hi Joost and Andrius,
Thank you both! Andrius, if you're able to get it to build without
node-rewire I would be happy to test a .deb with the shiny apps that I
have made. It looks like Joost is also able to test .debs.
Best,
Eric
On Wed, Mar 23, 2022 at 11:21 AM Andrius Merkys <merkys@debian.org> wrote:
>
> 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
Reply to: