[Pkg-javascript-devel] Please reject node-gyp-build

Xavier yadd at debian.org
Tue Dec 15 15:04:39 GMT 2020


Hi all,

I pushed node-gyp-build (#977472), but after checking more I think it's
a bad idea to push such package to Debian: its goal is to check if a
prebuild object exists in package downloaded from npm registry before
launching `node-gyp rebuild`.
Debian packages provide compiled objects and don't use on-the-fly
compilation, then this package is useless. I removed this dependency
from node-websocket using a simple patch [1]

So please reject node-gyp-build.

Cheers,
Xavier

[1]:
https://salsa.debian.org/js-team/node-websocket/-/blob/master/debian/patches/remove-dependency-to-node-gyp-build.patch



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