[Pkg-javascript-devel] Bug#1006469: Bug#1006469: node-puppeteer shouldn't embed devtools-protocol

[Andrius Merkys]

Hello,

On 2022-02-28 06:09, Martina Ferrari wrote:
>> node-puppeteer embeds a copy of devtools-protocol while Debian has
>> node-devtools-protocol. Please drop this and use node-devtools-protocol
>> dependency
> 
> This was done on purpose, as it is not really workable to keep them
> separate due to how tightly coupled the code is to the version of the
> protocol. Keeping them separate will mean endless trouble, forcing both
> packages to always be updated in step, and if anybody ever updates the
> devtools package separately it most surely will break puppeteer.

I packaged node-devtools-protocol with the hope to un-embed it from
node-puppeteer, but I am mostly convinced it is node-devtools-protocol
that should be removed. If I get a second opinion that
node-devtools-protocol is not worthy as a package on its own, I will RM it.

Best,
Andrius