hello! I would like to join the pkg-multimedia team

Felipe Sateler fsateler at debian.org
Fri Jun 27 02:07:46 UTC 2014


On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 5:20 PM, Andrew Kelley <superjoe30 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Felipe,

Hi Andrew,


> 4 months later and groovebasin has reached 1.1.0 (release notes). I think it
> is becoming mature enough that I'd like to package it.
>
> I have filed an ITP:
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=752829

Awesome.

> There is one thing which is problematic, maybe you could give me a tip on
> how to solve it. The app is Node.js and depends on many modules:
> http://paste.ubuntu.com/7707835/
>
> That is about 130 modules that need to be packaged up for this to work.

It seems your computer is somewhat outdated, I get 69 distinct packages.

> Would Debian approve of this?

What do you mean approve of this? Surely all the deps are free
software? If you mean bundling, that is very likely to be frowned
upon.

However, the more important issue is that several of the dependencies
have conflicting requirements. Possibly the requirements are too
strong, but I don't know.


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Saludos,
Felipe Sateler



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