<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">Le lun. 26 nov. 2018 à 17:29, Xavier <<a href="mailto:yadd@debian.org">yadd@debian.org</a>> a écrit :<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Xavier wrote:<br>
>> ...<br>
>> Looks acceptable IMO<br>
> <br>
> Policy update:<br>
> - components used only during build => not used in version<br>
> (except if they inject some code)<br>
> - components without major risks => not used in version<br>
> - components that must be followed => declared as "group" in<br>
> debian/watch<br>
> - components that must be followed and used in many other packages<br>
> => packaged separately<br>
> <br>
> Note: I wrote this to help js-team and decrease time to wait in NEW<br>
> queue. If you feel that "crazy", please simply delete<br>
> <a href="https://wiki.debian.org/Javascript/GroupSourcesTutorial" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://wiki.debian.org/Javascript/GroupSourcesTutorial</a> and the links to<br>
> this page.<br>
> <br>
> I you don't want to do it by yourself, I can remove the page for you.<br>
> Just ask me to do it.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>This is certainly not crazy, and while i'm not myself completely convinced it's the right approach,</div><div>(mostly because i did not took the time to review and practice), it's the closest thing we have</div><div>to a usable solution.</div><div><br></div><div>Please don't stop there, it would be such a waste.</div><div><br></div><div>About the bundled packages and the weird version encoding all the bundled versions:</div><div>most upstreams that are serious about their packaging now use a package-lock file,</div><div>effectively locking down a released version to the needed versions of dependencies.</div><div>When it's the case, it means that any change in versions of dependencies will be reflected</div><div>by a new parent package version. In that case, it's useless to encode dependencies versions</div><div>in the parent debian package version ?</div><div><br></div><div>Jérémy</div></div></div>