[Pkg-javascript-devel] node-webfont (was: Re: Request to join the Debian JavaScript Maintainers group)

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Quoting Julian Gilbey (2022-12-11 21:04:39)
> > > Maybe create just a node-webfont package with embedded dependencies
> 
> That does seem like a sensible idea - I hadn't thought of doing that
> until I read the wiki (there's a theme here!).  I doubt that most of
> the packages required by webfont would be needed by other packages.

Please don't hide embedding dependencies, but install them and provide
them as virtual packages.

It is not only a matter of them being concretely needed by other
packages *now* but also being easily able to locate them if needed
*later* and for other reasons - e.g. security bugfixes.


 - Jonas

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