Package: node-carto Followup-For: Bug #826560 Hi,
since I needed this at $WORK and am also personally interested in this as an OSM contributor and Debian user, I took a closer look at the current state. It basically seems to require work on three packages: * node-chroma-js [1,2]: The WIP packaging from [2] doesn't seem to work even though node-catty is in e.g. Buster now. It seems that upstream used their own fork of node-catty, which added Coffescript support, and without that, the package cannot be built. However, in the meantime, upstream [3] seems to have changed to a different build system (Rollup) and also seems to use plain JavaScript now, so if no package that provides a variant that works in a browser has to be built (that would require some additional Rollup-extensions as build-time dependencies that are not in Debian, but Rollup itself is), 'simply' installing the source files from the upstream repo to the correct location might get this done. * hsluv: This is a new dependency of carto, so that needs to be packaged. There is a (dormant) ITP for the Python-version of HSLUV [4], but that seems to use a different and modified source than the JavaScript version (that gets built from the reference implementation that is written in Haxe [5], seems this was done with the Python version as well, but it was then further modified). The Haxe compiler that is in Debian is able to build the hsluv source code. Unfortunately, they don't seem to have anything like tags or source code releases, which is probably a bit tedious when packaging it. This seems to be a replacement/successor of node-husl which was in Debian before. * node-carto [6]: Once the above packages are done, node-carto can be updated to the latest upstream [7] release (1.2.0). If anybody wants to continue working on this, I can push the prototypical packaging that works for me somewhere, e.g. Salsa. The packaging is either based on the existing repos on Salsa (node-chroma-js [2], node-carto [6]) or contains a new package (hsluv). This packaging attempt is likely far from good enough to be directly used in Debian, but I guess it could serve as an 'inspiration' and to get a 'lower bound' for the work that is required to get an updated node-carto package. Kind regards Manfred [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=844229 [2] https://salsa.debian.org/js-team/node-chroma-js [3] https://github.com/gka/chroma.js [4] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=891391 [5] https://github.com/hsluv/hsluv [6] https://salsa.debian.org/js-team/node-carto [7] https://github.com/mapbox/carto
