On Mon, Nov 26, 2018 at 7:58 PM Jérémy Lal <kapo...@melix.org> wrote: > > > > Le lun. 26 nov. 2018 à 17:29, Xavier <y...@debian.org> a écrit : >> >> Xavier wrote: >> >> ... >> >> Looks acceptable IMO >> > >> > Policy update: >> > - components used only during build => not used in version >> > (except if they inject some code) >> > - components without major risks => not used in version >> > - components that must be followed => declared as "group" in >> > debian/watch >> > - components that must be followed and used in many other packages >> > => packaged separately >> > >> > Note: I wrote this to help js-team and decrease time to wait in NEW >> > queue. If you feel that "crazy", please simply delete >> > https://wiki.debian.org/Javascript/GroupSourcesTutorial and the links to >> > this page. >> > >> > I you don't want to do it by yourself, I can remove the page for you. >> > Just ask me to do it. > > > This is certainly not crazy, and while i'm not myself completely convinced > it's the right approach, > (mostly because i did not took the time to review and practice), it's the > closest thing we have > to a usable solution. > > Please don't stop there, it would be such a waste. > > About the bundled packages and the weird version encoding all the bundled > versions: > most upstreams that are serious about their packaging now use a package-lock > file, > effectively locking down a released version to the needed versions of > dependencies. > When it's the case, it means that any change in versions of dependencies will > be reflected > by a new parent package version. In that case, it's useless to encode > dependencies versions > in the parent debian package version ?
No it is not useless because using now sed (and i future a dh helper) you could add automagically a provides: node-foo (=version)... So I think it is a bad idea for a debian/rules point of view > > Jérémy > -- > Pkg-javascript-devel mailing list > Pkg-javascript-devel@alioth-lists.debian.net > https://alioth-lists.debian.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-javascript-devel -- Pkg-javascript-devel mailing list Pkg-javascript-devel@alioth-lists.debian.net https://alioth-lists.debian.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-javascript-devel
