Bug#1059336: ITP: node-html5-qrcode -- qr-code and bar-code scanning library for the web

[Yadd <yadd@debian.org>]

On 12/22/23 22:58, Georges Khaznadar wrote:
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: Georges Khaznadar <georgesk@debian.org>
> X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org
>
> * Package name    : node-html5-qrcode
>    Version         : 2.3.8
>    Upstream Contact: https://github.com/mebjas/html5-qrcode/issues
> * URL             : https://github.com/mebjas/html5-qrcode
> * License         : Apache-2.0, GPL2
>    Programming Lang: nodejs, typescript
>    Description     : qr-code and bar-code scanning library for the web
>
>   Use this lightweight library to easily / quickly integrate QR code,
>   bar code, and other common code scanning capabilities to your web
>   application.
>
> So far, debian is missing a package to scan qrcodes and barcodes from
> a web page. I intend to maintain this package as a dependency for a
> future package SLM, school library management, which I am developping
> actively. This latter package allows students to find and recognize
> books inside a library by scanning a few qr-codes.
>
> The package node-html5-qrcode is uploaded to
> https://salsa.debian.org/georgesk/node-html5-qrcode.git

Hi,

your debian/rules uses npm to build instead of launching direct commands 
but the worst is that you call "npm install" which imports files from 
Internet, this is not compliant with policy.

Cheers,
Yadd