On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 3:43 PM, Andrew Kelley <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 3:40 PM, Jérémy Lal <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Le vendredi 17 octobre 2014 à 15:04 -0700, Andrew Kelley a écrit : >> > On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 12:15 AM, Jérémy Lal <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> > > Le jeudi 16 octobre 2014 à 14:17 -0700, Andrew Kelley a écrit : >> > > > On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 12:44 AM, Jérémy Lal <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > > > >> > > > > > What should I do? >> > > > > >> > > > > Since both have same API, i'd add your patches as quilt patches to >> > > > > node-findit that is already in debian and add a binary package >> > > > > node-findit2 (symlinking /usr/lib/nodejs/findit to findit2). >> > > > > >> > > > > Or the reverse, change upstream and add binary node-findit to >> > > > > node-findit2. >> > > > >> > > > >> > > > What about this? >> > > > >> > > > * Add patch as quilt patch to node-findit that is already in debian >> > > > * When packaging other package updates that depend on findit2, >> patch them >> > > > to depend on node-findit instead, since the patch provides the >> findit2 >> > > API >> > > > and bug fixes. >> > > >> > > I agree up to that point where you imply that findit2 has a different >> > > API ? If that's the case then findit2 must be... findit2 ! >> > > >> > >> > Hmm, in this case, since upstream seems to be ignoring my pull request, >> > maybe I will >> > >> > * rename the module to a better fork name (as I did with formidable -> >> > multiparty) >> > * add new node module to debian >> > * update packages to depend on new module >> > * delete node-findit from debian since nothing depends on it >> >> If that's the case, then please keep a name close to the original one, >> so that when packaging a module depending on (old) findit, one can find >> easily the new findit to be a match. >> >> You might also want to commit to keep a backward-compatible API with >> node-findit. >> >> These are only suggestions. > > > I have thought about it, and I decided to keep the name as findit2. Also I > agree to commit to backward-compatible API with node-findit, so that debian > packages can use findit2 instead. I should have a package done here > shortly. One thing that is kind of funny, is that since I cleaned up the > code considerably, the lines of code is now small enough that FTP masters > might say it is too small!! But hopefully if we tell them we are going to > remove node-findit and this package is intended to replace it, then they > will be OK with it. > Alright, node-findit2 is packaged up and ready for review and upload. I think we should send a note to the FTP masters that it will replace node-findit.
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