[Pkg-javascript-devel] Bug#940511: Bug#940511: yarnpkg: Package symlink yarn -> yarnpkg

[Paolo Greppi]

See below ...

On Wed, 20 May 2020 18:08:29 +0200 =?UTF-8?Q?Ma=C3=ABl_Nison?= <mael.nison at datadoghq.com> wrote:
> Hi, I'm Maël, Yarn's lead maintainer.
> 
> While cmdtest has a popcon score higher than the yarn package, it's mostly
> because Yarn isn't traditionally installed using the Debian package. For
> historical reasons the 1.x branch always updated it, but in general our
> users install Yarn using it's "competitor", npm. The npm numbers give a
> very different picture: Yarn is downloaded 6.1m times per month.
> 
> There are currently talks to, potentially, ship symlinks for the three main
> package managers along with Node (npm, which is already there, along with
> Yarn and maybe pnpm). These plans aren't concrete yet, but a few people
> think it's worth studying. In any case, the decision is expected to be
> taken for Node 15, which will happen this year. To the extent possible, I
> think it could be wise (and very appreciated!) to consider renaming the
> `yarn` binary from `cmdtest` before it risks becoming an actual problem.
> 
> As a last note, I pinged Lars Wirzenius (who I think was the original
> cmdtest maintainer?), back in March '19. He mentioned having recently
> retired, but seemed fairly supportive of the idea ("I've now discussed the
> name of our testing tool with its other developer and we will likely change
> the name of our program during the Debian buster+1 development cycle").
> 
> Maël

Hi Maël,

thanks for the feedback and for your Debian contribution.

I've added here the info on the bug that has to be addressed by the cmdtest
maintainer (if he agrees) for us to be able to fix this one.

I'll also ping him.

Paolo