[Pkg-javascript-devel] Comments regarding acorn_6.1.1+ds+~0.3.1+~4.0.0+~1.0.0+~5.0.1+ds+~1.6.2+ds-1_amd64.changes

[Pirate Praveen]

On 2019, ഓഗസ്റ്റ് 5 5:42:17 PM IST, roucaries bastien <roucaries.bastien+debian at gmail.com> wrote:
>In
>On Mon, Jul 8, 2019 at 2:26 PM Chris Lamb <lamby at debian.org> wrote:
>>
>> Dear Jonas et al.,
>>
>> > What would you suggest/expect as more useful alternative - given
>the
>> > constraint set by ftpmasters?
>>
>> If I may be so bold: this seems to be a hot button topic for you or I
>> am somehow entirely incorrectly reading adverserial animosity in the
>> tone of both your messages. This would, if only practically speaking,
>> not feel like a terribly productive mode of discussion so I do hope
>> you that in the event you felt you needed to comment any further you
>> would be able to ally and assuage me on this angle.
>>
>> To be clear, I don't have any suggestions (do note I was quite-
>> literally "musing out loud"), I was merely explicitly noting a slight
>> wart in the current state of affairs that might be taken into account
>> if, completely and entirely hypothethically, any of this revisied or
>> reviewed more generally. I trust this clarifies my position. :)
>
>Going back to debian after a short hiatus (we are expected our 3d
>child in four year in october), I do not see anything offensing in
>your tone.
>
>The next version of acorn will be worst from this point of view:
>6.2.1+ds+~0.4.0+~4.0.0+really4.0.0+~1.0.0+~5.0.1+ds+~1.7.0+ds+~0.1.1+~0.3.1+~0.2.0+~0.1.0+~0.3.0+~0.3.0
>
>upstream split small package in smaller package, so we try to do our
>best.
>
>I was thinking first to using a sequence number but we lost the uscan
>automatic up to date download.
>
>In fact we exchanged small insane package we insane metadata, against
>a crazy version string, I believe it is a fair engineering decision.
>We push the whole crap only to one place a version string.
>
>Bastien

I think this is over engineering. We can just embed smaller modules multiple times instead. If something is not small enough to embed, I think it is worth tracking it as a separate package.
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