On Sat, May 19, 2018 at 10:49 PM, Bastien ROUCARIES <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, May 18, 2018 at 10:50 PM, Chris Lamb <[email protected]> wrote: >> severity 899073 wishlist >> tags 899073 + moreinfo >> thanks >> >> [Tagging +moreinfo due to RFC status & "wishlist" as it's a feature request] >> >> Hi Bastien, >> >>> For packaging a lot of too small node package we will like that uscan >>> support >>> to download from multiple source with different version ala uscan component. >> >> If I understand this correctly, you plan to ship similar/related node >> packages as separate components of a single source package. > > Yes like node-tap that ship (using manual uscan) one line source code > package own-or and own-or-env, or node-function bind that ship one > liner node-has > >> >>> It will decrease the load of small pacakge for us and decrease the load of >>> ftpmasters >> >> If so, could you clarify exactly how this would help ftpmaster? The >> amount of code to be reviewed remains constant, merely that the number >> of source packages is far fewer from a statistics point of view. > > The number of line of code to review will increase but the number of > package under 1ko will decrease. And i think it is easier for you to > review > a tar.gz decompressed, than to reviewing copyright of patches (usually > small package are added with the help of patch). That why I said, it > will simplify your work. > >> Indeed, it might even be additional work for all as, for example, >> problem with (eg.) component 14 out of 27 might would delay the entire >> thing and cause confusion about exactly which package one is referring >> to at any point in time. > > I understand, but it will reserved to only really small package like > the node-is-odd that sit in the NEWS queue (that could be I think > rejected) . This kind of package could be merge with the rdepend with > no loss of generality. > > We could not get upstream to be (censured), but we could try something > on your side.
Ping ? > > Bastien > >> >> Best wishes, >> >> -- >> ,''`. >> : :' : Chris Lamb >> `. `'` [email protected] / chris-lamb.co.uk >> `-
