[Pkg-javascript-devel] hello, plus node packaging questions.

[Jonas Smedegaard]

On 12-01-31 at 12:40pm, Andrew Baxter wrote:
> On 31/01/12 12:25, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> >By packaging shared code as shared code, we encourage use of shared 
> >code.  Among our users, and also among developers of Debian: when you 
> >decide to stuff a piece of shareable code into a consuming package, 
> >you essentially hide that code as shareable, and it is highly likely 
> >that the next developer will do the same for the exact same piece of 
> >code.
> >
> >Or put it differently: Did you verify all existing Debian-packaged 
> >Node code for existing use of those small chunks, before proposing to 
> >stuff it into buddycloud-client?  Are you certain you are not 
> >_introducing_ code duplication by doing so? ;-)
> >
> >
> 
> It's OK - I get the point; it's just it helps to have a definite 
> answer as to the reasons when I'm thinking about marginal cases like 
> normalizecss.

Definitive answers you can find in Debian Policy.

What I provide is opinion, to help form consensus, to maybe cause 
additions to Debian Policy.


> >Perhaps npm could benefit from a certain hinting provided by dpkg 
> >packages Node code.  I am unaware of such need, so someone need to 
> >discover and document that (if it exist)...
> 
> OK. If I get the energy, I'll look into how hard it would be to make 
> npm detect installed debian packages.

Please consider spending your limited time at work more benificial to 
Debian users.  Users of npm essentially wants to bypass Debian rather 
than depend on it.

Please channel your energy into packaging Node code.


 - Jonas

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