Bug#1100886: ITP: decibels -- Audio player for GNOME

[Tianyu Chen <billchenchina2001@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Mar 28, 2025, 3:36 AM Jeremy Bícha <jeremy.bicha@canonical.com> wrote:

On Thu, Mar 27, 2025 at 3:17 PM Tianyu Chen <billchenchina2001@gmail.com> wrote:
> The problem is caused by the low node-typescript version. I managed to
> successfully build the gnome-team/decibels version with a local-packaged
> node-typescript_5.8.2+ds1_0local1.(Currently Debian only has 4.9.5 in
> sid and 5.0.4 in exp)

I noticed that the Fedora package specified a fairly high version
number for their equivalent of node-typescript. Thank you for
confirming.

Could you ask the Debian node-typescript maintainers if they could
upload a newer version to Experimental?

Probably the most difficult part of packaging Decibels will be how to
handle the vendored gi-types. Based on our experience with Rust, we
may need to package the generator.

Ah, sorry I think I missed your point in my previous message.

Do you mean we should exclude the gi-types directory and package generate the types in build stage and using a generator you mentioned? Do I get you right?

Either the archived one that Decibels is currently using
https://github.com/gjsify/gi.ts

or the new one that Decibels isn't using yet
https://github.com/gjsify/ts-for-gir

The switch is mentioned at
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/decibels/-/merge_requests/128

This means that the first GNOME Typescript app will be the most
difficult to package. After that, the others should be much easier.

Figuring out how to handle the generator and its output is the part
that I expect to take a long time.

Thank you,
Jeremy Bícha