[Pkg-javascript-devel] Embedded modules more than once

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Quoting Xavier (2020-09-03 15:43:24)
> Le 03/09/2020 à 15:36, Xavier a écrit :
> > Le 03/09/2020 à 14:59, Andrius Merkys a écrit :
> >> Hi Xavier,
> >>
> >> On 2020-09-03 15:54, Xavier wrote:
> >>> buffer-equal:
> >>>     - node-buffer-equal (1.0.0)
> >>>     - node-vinyl-fs (1.0.0)
> >>
> >> Does this (and the like) mean that <module> is now packaged as
> >> node-<module>? If so, such embedded modules might be removed.
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > You're right buffer-equal should be removed from node-vinyl-fs. Other
> > example, node-parse-json is bad: it embeds some outdated @babel/*
> > modules while node-babel7 has been released.
> > 
> > I built this inventory to detect such cases.
> 
> Other (good) example: node-lolex embed a slightly outdated
> @sinonjs/commons to avoid a complex circular dependency with node-sinon.
> In this case no bug, just a known problem.

"known" to whom? It does not seem known to Debian nor to the JavaScript 
team - i.e. I fail to see any mention of the reason for that code 
embedding in debian/README or debian/TODO.

What did I miss?


 - Jonas

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