[Pkg-javascript-devel] Bug#994577: lintian: node-* arch:all package should depends on nodejs:any and b-d on nodejs:native

[Mattia Rizzolo]

(this reply is not related to lintian directly)

On Fri, Sep 17, 2021 at 09:34:43PM +0000, Bastien Roucariès wrote:
> In order to improve cross build of nodejs ecosystem, node-* arch:all package
> should depends on nodejs:any and b-d on nodejs:native

IMHO, you should make your tooling produce this "nodejs:any" binary
dependency, instead of having each package have it manually listed in
d/control (see ${perl:Depends} as an example, since, it's actually the
very same thing, producing perl:any dependencies).

> Maybe this test should be restricted to ma: foreign package

It shouldn't be IMHO.

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