Re: Bug#1140414: ITP: dart - Dart SDK (Dart VM, dart2js and tools)

Pierre Gruet <[email protected]> Sat, 20 Jun 2026 12:09:31 +0200
Newsgroups	gmane.linux.debian.devel.general
Message-ID	<[email protected]>
Hi Juan,

Le 20/06/2026 à 03:00, Juan M. Méndez Rey a écrit :
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: Juan Manuel Mendez Rey <[email protected]>
> X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected]
> 
> * Package name    : dart
>   Version         : 3.13.x
>   Upstream Authors : The Dart project authors (Google LLC)
> * URL             : https://dart.dev
>   Source          : https://github.com/dart-lang/sdk
> * License         : BSD-3-Clause (plus bundled third-party trees, each under
>                     its own DFSG-compatible license; see debian/copyright)
>   Programming Lang: Dart, C++
>   Description     : Dart SDK (Dart VM, dart2js and tools)
> 
> The Dart SDK provides the Dart VM, the AOT/native compilers, the
> dart-to-JavaScript compiler (dart2js), the analyzer and the dart 
> command-line
> developer tools. It is the reference toolchain for the Dart language.
> 
> Why this matters for Debian: several requested packages are blocked solely
> because Dart is not in the archive:
>   - #998024  RFP: Dart Sass -- the reference Sass compiler, built with 
> dart2js
>   - #931793  RFP: fluttersdk -- Flutter, which is built on the Dart SDK
>   - #1051470 ITP: esbuild-sass-plugin (depends on the above)
> 
> Packaging note (the one unusual point, expanded on debian-devel):
> Dart is self-hosting (its front-end is written in Dart), so building it 
> needs a
> previously-built Dart, exactly like ghc, gnat (Ada) and ocaml. The package
> Build-Depends on a previous dart for that bootstrap; the source tarball 
> contains
> NO prebuilt binary. A working proof of concept that builds the Dart SDK FROM
> SOURCE, offline, in sbuild --chroot-mode=unshare, with the Debian system
> toolchain (gn, ninja, clang, lld) and de-vendored zlib/double- 
> conversion, is at:
>   https://salsa.debian.org/mendezr/dart
> 
> I intend to maintain this within a suitable team (home-assistant/js)
> 

Thanks for the ITP; it turns out there is already a dart package:
	https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/dart

It is a library for robotics and computer animation.

You should look for another name (dart-sdk maybe?), and also be wary 
that the binary packages have names different from the ones of the 
current src:dart package in the archive.

Best regards,

-- 
Pierre
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