[Pkg-javascript-devel] Bug#969641: Bug#969641: node-entities: should depend on nodejs

[Pirate Praveen]

Control: severity -1 wishlist

On Sun, Sep 6, 2020 at 13:59, Jonas Smedegaard <dr at jones.dk> wrote:
> Package: node-entities
> Version: 2.0.2-2
> Severity: serious
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> node-* packages must depend on nodejs -
> libjs-* need not (when _only_ targeting browser use).
> 
* Libraries written in a language should generally not depend on that 
language's interpreter

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=934948#54

> Changelog for release 2.0.2-2 includes "Drop runtime dependency on 
> nodejs
> (to avoid installing nodejs with l ibjs-markdown-it" -
> but libjs-markdown-it does _not_ depend on nodejs,
> neither directly nor transitively.
> 
> Perhaps there was no issue to fix, and you simply confused
> libjs-markdown-it and node-markdown-it?
> 

No, node-markdown-it provides libjs-markdown-it now and node-entities 
is a dependency of node-markdown-it

 From the CTTE bug referenced above,


3. For the specific case of src:ruby-task-list, which provides both a 
Ruby
   library and a JavaScript library, we suggest:

* shipping both Ruby and JavaScript libraries in a single binary package
* removing the dependency on the Ruby interpreter, unless there is a
  reason why it is required
* asking the maintainers of the Ruby libraries that ruby-task-list
  recursively depends on (such as ruby-rack) to remove *their* 
dependencies
  on the Ruby interpreter, unless there is a reason why it is required

So we need to recursively remove the dependency on the interpreter.

> Please revert the change, to have node-* package depend on nodejs.
> 
> If you disagree that nodejs libraries must depend on nodejs,
> then please let's discuss that general change in the team first.

Already replied there.