[Pkg-javascript-devel] Node.js renaming

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Hi Harlan,

On 11-08-26 at 06:14pm, Jérémy Lal wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 7:42 AM, Jérémy Lal <kapouer at melix.org> wrote:
> >> On 25/08/2011 23:35, Harlan Lieberman-Berg wrote:
> >>> I wanted to reach out to you to see if there was anything I could 
> >>> do to assist you in the nodejs renaming process.

I would appreciate to first verify that renaming nodejs is in fact 
sensible to do.

I heard someone mention briefly during debcofn that the clashing "node" 
binary is a daemon and therefore likely to not affect many users if 
renamed.  Same person (sorry, forgot who it was) also pointed out that 
the packaging is also largely unmaintained.

I do not say that you should stop exploring, just that my approach is to 
first a) demonstrate through packaging in unstable that nodejs is big 
and its main binary is used interactively by many users, and then b) 
rehash the discussion with the package maintainer of the "node" package 
about possibilities of renaming that one to solve the clash.

I find it a bad approach to educate the World that Debian 
favor a ham radio daemon over a hash-bang style interpreter for its 
global namespace.  

To speed up the process of getting Nodejs into testing and then stable, 
I find it more sensible to start approaching the package maintainer of 
"node" now, to figure out if in fact it is hard work to change that 
instead of this one.


Regards,

 - Jonas

P.S.

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