[Pkg-javascript-devel] Bug#994578: Bug#994578: Bug#994578: node-node-sass: Please split between arch:all arch:any package

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Quoting Nilesh Patra (2021-09-18 11:49:51)
> On 18 September 2021 3:19:59 am IST, "Bastien Roucariès" 
> <roucaries.bastien at gmail.com> wrote:
> >node-node-sass should be split between arch:all and arch:any package.
> >
> >The first one should be ma:foreign (if possible), the second one ma: 
> >same
> >
> >It will improve crossbuilt and moreover be ma friendly
> 
> Thank you very much for reporting. I fully agree with you.
> 
> However, as you might notice in this bug report[1] that node-node-sass 
> has been officially deprecated in favour of dart-sass. Which will take 
> time to be packages I believe.
> 
> But I'm unsure if it's worth to go for such a split and loop via the 
> NEW queue again provided the package is not under active maintainance 
> anymore. node-node-sass does not have many reverse dependencies 
> either, thought.

If a package is actively used then it makes sense to maintain it - which 
includes improving support for cross-building.

I do not expect dart-sass soon in Debian: Requires someone to package 
and maintain and stabilize the dart compiler first, and then dart-sass - 
i.e. multiple visit through NEW in addition to the packaging efforts 
themselves.


 - Jonas

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