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

On Fri, Mar 28, 2025, 3:36 AM Jeremy Bícha <[email protected]>
wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 27, 2025 at 3:17 PM Tianyu Chen <[email protected]>
> 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
>