[Pkg-javascript-devel] Small Node.js packages in NEW

[Daniel Pocock]

On 16/08/15 12:58, Ross Gammon wrote:
> On 07/23/2015 06:18 PM, Daniel Pocock wrote:
>> c) would we consider a temporary nodejs-modules.deb omnibus package
>> solution, with something like:
>>
>> Provides: node-foo, node-bar, ...
>> Conflicts: node-foo, node-bar, ...
>>
>> and then no other package should explicitly depend on nodejs-modules?
>> This package would just contain stuff that is relatively stable perhaps.
> Hi Daniel,
>
> Thanks for trying to help with solutions here. The omnibus package is a
> nice idea, but how would we monitor for new upstream releases when there
> is only one watch file per source package? And wouldn't a RC bug on only
As a temporary solution, that aspect of it (monitoring upstream
versions) may not be supportable

> one of the sub-modules potentially cause the whole lot to be removed if
> we couldn't fix it fast enough?

If a bug could not be fixed, then the individual module could be removed
from the package and then "Provides" line in the control file would then
be updated so that only dependencies using the specific module would be
impacted.

Regards,

Daniel