[Pkg-javascript-devel] Bug#837929: npm: Should suggest nodejs-legacy

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Quoting Jérémy Lal (2016-09-15 17:21:30)
> 2016-09-15 17:12 GMT+02:00 Matijs van Zuijlen <matijs at matijs.net>:
> 
> > Package: npm
> > Version: 1.4.21+ds-2
> > Severity: wishlist
> >
> > Executables installed with npm need the /usr/bin/node executable, which
> > is provided in the nodejs-legacy package. This information is currently
> > only in the README.Debian file. I think it would be really helpful to
> > add nodejs-legacy to the npm package's Suggests:, or even Recommends:.
> >
> >
> Well, re-reading
> https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2012/07/msg00002.html
> paragraph 2 says
> 
> > No package in the archive may depend on or recommend
> > the nodejs-legacy package, which is provided solely for upstream
> compatibility.
> 
> Taken literally, it doesn't forbid Suggest. Does it ?

I agree we are not forbidden from suggesting: Seems to me the choice of 
words by the Technical Committee was deliberate, as that matches how 
packages outside of Debian (i.e. non-free stuff) is allowed to be 
suggested only.


 - Jonas

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