[Pkg-javascript-devel] How to ship DefinitelyTyped's type definitions?

[Julien Puydt]

Hi,

Le 16/05/2018 à 17:45, Bastien ROUCARIES a écrit :
> Can I suggest in all the case something pragmatic ? Could I suggest
> that package providing types for node-foo should be named
> nodetypes-foo (without hyphen in order to avoid conflict with node
> package)
> 
> If node-foo include type it is only needed to add "Provides:
> nodetypes-foo (= ${Source:Version})" in node-foo.
> 
> Can someone suggest a policy file change ?
> 
> The same tips could be used for libjs-foo lib BTW. I have done that
> for node-normalize.css for instance. It avoid small package and is
> ftpmaster friendly


Good idea, but the question of how to actually provide nodetypes-foo if
it's only available in DefinitelyTyped's big repository is still open,
if I don't err?

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