On Fri, 01 Dec 2017, Paolo Greppi wrote: > Fourth to Don, many thanks for trying to find a clean technical > solution, but that won't work in this case because the babel makefile > bootstrap target does: > > yarn > ./node_modules/.bin/lerna bootstrap > make build > cd packages/babel-runtime; node scripts/build-dist.js > > and yarn and lerna are both WIP: > - yarn: https://bugs.debian.org/843021 > - lerna: https://bugs.debian.org/849258
yarn is a mechanism to manage build dependencies, and lerna is git submodule/split git repo manager. I'd expect that neither are required in Debian where sbuild manages the dependencies, and no remote sources are available. [I tried to see if this was the case, but babel seems to have very limited in-tree design documentation.] -- Don Armstrong https://www.donarmstrong.com Some pirates achieved immortality by great deeds of cruelty or daring-do. Some achieved immortality by amassing great wealth. But the captain had long ago decided that he would, on the whole, prefer to achieve immortality by not dying. -- Terry Pratchet _The Color of Magic_
