Bug#861581: ITP: rainloop -- Simple, modern & fast web-based email client
Hi Gunnar,
Sorry for the delay; I've done more work on the package, but I'm extremely busy
at the moment so updates/responses may take a while. The current version fixes
a lot of issues but isn't ready for inclusion in Debian yet.
> Ugh. The whole NodeJS ecosystem makes me shiver :-(
Agreed. I've been working on packaging dependencies individually when I can,
apparently 5 lines of code is enough to warrant an NPM package...
> That is also something that cannot be done; packaging software cannot
> depend on network connectivity (not even initiate network
> connections). The dependencies must be somehow build-depended upon; in
> the (ugliest, worst) case you could patch your sources to include the
> packages to fulfill this... But I doubt the ftp-masters will approve
> of it.
I've done this to make the package build successfully, but I'm working with the
pkg-javascript group on getting the non-library dependencies packaged
independently. Libraries missing from Debian should be OK
(using https://packages.debian.org/source/sid/netdata as an example) but build
system tools are a bit much.
I wrote a basic Makefile to replace upstream's Gulp build system, which helped
a lot, but webpack+babel is unavoidable so I'm working on that project at the
moment.
> We have to ship sources for every piece of software. You don't need to
> separate them as long as you provide all the sources and can *prove*
> they can be amalgamated to the identical "binary" you are
> shipping. That's not a trivial thing, sadly :(
Fortunately, the amalgamation is a step in upstream's build process; the bundled
libraries are included in source form.
The new DSC URL is:
https://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/r/rainloop/rainloop_1.11.1-1.dsc
I think I've fixed all of the major issues with the package other than the
bundled build tools. I'll update the copyright file once that's done and I find
out what will still need to be bundled. Please let me know if there's anything
else I'm missing.
Sincerely,
Daniel Ring
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