2015-06-27 15:24 GMT+02:00 Leo Iannacone <[email protected]>: > On 26 June 2015 at 22:57, Thorsten Alteholz <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Hi Bas, > > > >>> I'm reluctantly looking into this issue further, but I need to know > what > >>> requirements an Node.js module must meet to be eligible for its own > >>> source package. > >>> > >>> What are your requirements for this? > > > > > > from my point of view only the size of the binary package (excluding > /usr/share/doc and other meta information) is important. So the 120 bytes > of node-isarry is far too little. Up to this point I draw the line at about > 5kB. > > > > Thorsten > > > Packaging nodejs module has become a nightmare. We should start > working on bundling the whole node_modules directory per deb package. > > That's all.
May i insist that this must not be a general or systematic practice. Doing so should trigger some lintian info tags at minimum. However it makes sense to not distribute separately a bunch of submodules that are strongly related to the software that needs them, and in addition that are not used in other debian packages, especially if they contain a few lines of code ! Currently the approach we have is adding those modules as patches, and this is not a good way to do it - not easy to do, to maintain, and is error-prone. It'd be nice to agree on a method for building the source tarball with the modules chosen by the maintainer. The list of modules and their versions must be kept somewhere: - in debian/watch along with a uupdate-like script to deal with building tarball - in debian/source/something - in debian/copyright ? and toolchain must allow downloading/rebuilding source tarball using mk-origtargz so that Files-Excluded stays effective. Please comment. Jérémy.
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