#976682 node-jest: please provide real (not virtual) package node-natural-compare

Package:
src:node-jest
Source:
node-jest
Submitter:
Jonas Smedegaard
Date:
2021-11-07 03:33:02 UTC
Severity:
important
#976682#5
Date:
2020-12-06 22:05:02 UTC
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eslint will soon depend on node-natural-compare,
which is currently a virtual package provided by jest.

That means eslint and all its consumers,
many of which do not need jest,
will with the current setup grow a dependency of jest
and its large set of dependencies.

Please consider providing node-natural-compare as a real binary package,
either from src:node-jest as now,
but preferrably (to also reduce _build-dependency_ tree)
provided by some other source package with much much lower dependency tree -
ideally a package using same type of build-dependencies as itself
(i.e. _not_ mocha or jest or babel or rollup or terser).


Thanks for considering,

 - Jonas
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#976682#10
Date:
2021-09-29 13:57:40 UTC
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Since 26.6.3+ds+~cs64.28.30-3, node-jest builds 3 binary packages to
reduce dependencies size
#976682#19
Date:
2021-11-07 05:45:19 UTC
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Quoting Jonas Smedegaard (2020-12-06 23:05:02)

Yadd closed this with the following remark:

eslint 5.16.0~dfsg+~4.16.8-7 depends on node-natural-compare which is
clearly *not* separated from the pile of jest libraries: eslint has
exploded to depend on 120 packages (where only 1 is truly needed, since
node-natural-compare itself should have zero dependencies).

Reopening as not fixed!

 - Jonas