wu-lee
commented
2 years ago There are now many warnings in the build logs about deprecated packages and other problems, which appear as and when they are discovered in dependencies used by the website code.
Investigating these:
- Many might be worth fixing, because they are flagged as serious
- However, many of these require upgrading to versions which include potentially breaking changes, which mean potentially a lot of work finding and correcting the breakages
- A short experiment applying these shows that indeed things do break and that fixing them is not trivial
However, the main thing causing the build to break is that a particular dependency, node-sass, fails to install and build correctly. However, this package is deprecated (in fact that is probably related to the failure to build), and was replaced with the recommended alternative sass some time ago. The node-sass dependency just needed to be removed and the build now succeeds.... modulo other problems which deserve other tickets. See #85
The build action has been failing repeatedly.