Paul Tagliamonte, a Debian committer, co-works at the Bocoup loft (and works with me on Johnny-Five), I will hit him up tomorrow and see what he thinks about this.
-Rick On Thursday, July 12, 2012 at 8:37 PM, Marak Squires wrote: > I'm new to this sort of edict. > > After reading http://bugs.debian.org/614907, is saying "fuck you" an > appropriate response? Serious question. > > My favorite part, is when the debian developers start accusing each other of > clandestinely working with the node core team to "run crying to the > techinical commmitte". > > Either way, I'm not the maintainer of the node's Debian package. nor do I use > Debian. The only experience I've had around this issue is the 100 or so > support cases I've had to deal with of people installing Node from a linux > package manager, only to have it be out of date, then experiencing > conflicting installation issues for users who try to build latest from > source. > > > > > On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 2:41 PM, Carl Fürstenberg <[email protected] > (mailto:[email protected])> wrote: > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > > From: Don Armstrong <[email protected] (mailto:[email protected])> > > Date: Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 8:59 PM > > Subject: [CTTE #614907] Resolution of node/nodejs conflict > > To: [email protected] > > (mailto:[email protected]) > > > > > > > > === Resolution === > > The Technical Committee reaffirms the importance of preventing namespace > > collisions for programs in the distribution, while recognizing that > > compatibility with upstreams and with previous Debian releases is also > > important and that sometimes an imperfect balance must be struck between > > these three goals. > > > > The Committee therefore resolves that: > > > > 1. The nodejs package shall be changed to provide /usr/bin/nodejs, not > > /usr/bin/node. The package shall declare a Breaks: relationship with any > > packages in Debian that reference /usr/bin/node. > > 2. The nodejs source package shall also provide a nodejs-legacy binary > > package at Priority: extra that contains /usr/bin/node as a symlink to > > /usr/bin/nodejs. No package in the archive may depend on or recommend > > the nodejs-legacy package, which is provided solely for upstream > > compatibility. This package shall also declare a Conflicts: relationship > > with the node package. > > 3. The node source package shall rename its binary to /usr/sbin/ax25-node, > > and its binary package to ax25-node. > > 4. The node source package shall continue to build a transitional 'node' > > binary package for compatibility with deployed Debian installations, > > which provides /usr/sbin/node as a symlink to /usr/sbin/ax25-node. This > > package shall declare a reciprocal Conflicts: relationship with the > > nodejs-legacy package. Other packages may reference the 'node' package > > as a dependency or recommendation, but are encouraged to transition to > > 'ax25-node'. > > 5. The maintainers of these packages are required to implement the above > > changes immediately in unstable. Failing that, the Technical Committee > > reserves the right to NMU to implement these changes. > > 6. Once the above changes are implemented, the packages shall be considered > > suitable for release with respect to the Debian policy on conflicting > > packages. > > > > === End Resolution === > > > > Please see http://bugs.debian.org/614907 for the background and discussion. > > > > > > Don Armstrong > > > > -- > > I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended > > up where I needed to be. > > -- Douglas Adams _The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul_ > > > > http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu > > > > > > -- > > Carl Fürstenberg > > > > -- > > Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ > > Posting guidelines: > > https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > Groups "nodejs" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > > (mailto:[email protected]) > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected] > > (mailto:nodejs%[email protected]) > > For more options, visit this group at > > http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en > > -- > Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ > Posting guidelines: > https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "nodejs" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en
