[Pkg-javascript-devel] script to generate debian/watch for embedding nodejs modules

[Bastien ROUCARIES]

On Mon, Nov 26, 2018 at 7:58 PM Jérémy Lal <kapouer at melix.org> wrote:
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> Le lun. 26 nov. 2018 à 17:29, Xavier <yadd at debian.org> a écrit :
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>> Xavier wrote:
>> >> ...
>> >> Looks acceptable IMO
>> >
>> > Policy update:
>> >  - components used only during build => not used in version
>> >    (except if they inject some code)
>> >  - components without major risks    => not used in version
>> >  - components that must be followed  => declared as "group" in
>> >    debian/watch
>> >  - components that must be followed and used in many other packages
>> >    => packaged separately
>> >
>> > Note: I wrote this to help js-team and decrease time to wait in NEW
>> > queue. If you feel that "crazy", please simply delete
>> > https://wiki.debian.org/Javascript/GroupSourcesTutorial and the links to
>> > this page.
>> >
>> > I you don't want to do it by yourself, I can remove the page for you.
>> > Just ask me to do it.
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> This is certainly not crazy, and while i'm not myself completely convinced it's the right approach,
> (mostly because i did not took the time to review and practice), it's the closest thing we have
> to a usable solution.
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> Please don't stop there, it would be such a waste.
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> About the bundled packages and the weird version encoding all the bundled versions:
> most upstreams that are serious about their packaging now use a package-lock file,
> effectively locking down a released version to the needed versions of dependencies.
> When it's the case, it means that any change in versions of dependencies will be reflected
> by a new parent package version. In that case, it's useless to encode dependencies versions
> in the parent debian package version ?

No it is not useless because using now sed (and i future a dh helper)
you could add automagically a provides: node-foo (=version)...

So I think it is a bad idea for a debian/rules point of view
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> Jérémy
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