Re: Bug#1138606: ITP: railroad-diagrams -- library to draw railroad syntax diagrams

On Mon, Jun 01, 2026 at 06:55:49AM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> Quoting [email protected] (2026-06-01 05:44:27)
> > 
> > * Package name    : railroad-diagrams
> >   Version         : 1.0.0
> > * URL             : https://github.com/tabatkins/railroad-diagrams
> >   Programming Lang: JavaScript, Python
> >   Description     : library to draw railroad syntax diagrams
> 
> This project is already packaged as python3-railroad-diagrams.

Thanks for pointing this out! I missed it because I was only interested /
looking for the nodejs version.

> I suggest you coordinate with the maintainers to extend that to also
> cover the JavaScript port.

I did some investigation of the current python package. It seems the
source is taken from PyPI -- not github. Thus it doesn't include the
javascript module, only the python one. It's also missing the python test
file and some examples.

Therefore, I propose to update the package in the following ways:

  * use the source from github HEAD (version: 3.0.1+20260511+git736dec7)
  * change the source pkg name from python-railroad-diagrams to
    just railroad-diagrams
  * keep DPT as the Maintainer; add myself as Uploader
  * refresh the packaging of the python module
  * run upstream's test python script during build and as autopkgtest
  * add a second binary package for the nodejs module

I've started a fork of the existing repo in my jello namespace on salsa
https://salsa.debian.org/jello/railroad-diagrams to begin this work.

I'm interested in thoughts from the current maintainers in the DPT as
well as from the JS-Team. Does this plan make sense? Is there precedent /
prior-art for this?

Please cc me on replies.

>  - Jonas
--Joe

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