[Pkg-javascript-devel] Suggestions on ruby-task-list and node-deckar01-task-list

[Pirate Praveen]

Hi ruby and js teams,

task_list project [1] provides both ruby and nodejs code from the same 
repo. Currently only ruby-task-list binary package is created. I added 
a new binary package node-deckar01-task-list for the nodejs code, but 
it was rejected by ftp masters [2].

They think we should not add a new binary package for this case and 
instead should use a Provides field and a single binary package. This 
means installing node-deckar01-task-list will install ruby with it and 
ruby-task-list will install nodejs with it. Other option is to remove 
ruby dependency from ruby-task-list (but there are more dependencies 
than just ruby) and not add nodejs dependency. The rationale ftp 
masters give is to reduce number of binary node packages and hence 
metadata per packages.

In general we have started aggressively embedding smaller nodejs 
modules already as per ftp master suggestion, but in my opinion this is 
going too far on their mandate.

I don't agree with their decision, but the only option I have to 
challenege it is a GR. I'd like to hear from the rest of the team what 
you think about the situation. Do you agree with ftp masters? If you 
don't agree, would you support a GR to reverse this policy?

Thanks
Praveen

[1] <https://github.com/deckar01/task_list>
[2] <https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=921628#10>

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