[Pkg-javascript-devel] Bug#976331: Bug#976331: Bug#976331: [JS Policy] what to set in "Provides" field ?

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Quoting Pirate Praveen (2020-12-03 18:07:56)
> 
> 
> On 2020, ഡിസംബർ 3 10:03:18 PM IST, Xavier <yadd at debian.org> wrote:
> >I'm not in favor of your proposal: if I need a node-very-few-module
> >which is provided by a package with many dependencies, I'm not happy to
> >depend on it. To apply that, we should then choose with precaution in
> >which package we will embed each code. Packaging JS is already a hudge
> >work, I'm not sure we need more complexity.
> >
> >@JS-Team, does anyone have any other opinion? Else which option do you
> >choose? I'll update pkg-js-tools with your choice of course.
> 
> I agree with yadd here. We should not complicate js packaging more than it already is.

Rubbish: This debate is not about more or less complicated packaging.

We should make our js packaging *less* complicated.

More importantly, we should make js *maintenance* less complicated!

But most importantly, we should obey all "should"s in Debian policy: 
https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-source.html#embedded-code-copies


 - Jonas

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