[Pkg-javascript-devel] Bug#650343: nodejs: please provide "nodejs" command as a synonym for node

[Jonathan Nieder]

Package: nodejs
Version: 0.4.12-1
Severity: wishlist
Tags: upstream

Hi,

On some machines /usr/sbin/node refers to some program that is not the
node.js interpreter.  Therefore it would be helpful to have a "nodejs"
command that does exactly the same thing as /usr/bin/node, for people
to put into their scripts to reliably refer to the node.js interpreter.

In particular, this would allow node.js scripts to be included in
Debian without conflicting with the ham radio tool "node".

I'd be happy to help work on a patch for this to submit upstream.

Thanks for your work,
Jonathan