This is a good idea ! There is a lot of cruft, especially packages created for some obscure reason 2-3 years ago and since then abandoned both by the maintainer and by upstream, and superseded by the next cool thing in the nodejs ecosystem.
I propose to extract from UDD a list of candidate packages to be removed: those not fulfilling the criteria proposed by Jérémy, plus some more like: - popcon > 20 .. The list would be published for scrutiny here in this mailing list or on the wiki for say 2 weeks. To address the point raised by Ben (i.e. to make sure we don't remove a library needed at some point in the future for some other package not yet uploaded), I would leave it to the owner of the high-level package IPTs: for each of those there is a Task in the wiki or a non-disclosed WIP list - in any case the ITP owner knows best and she should manually remove from the list the packages she thinks she'll need, providing a rationale (i.e. "needed for yarnpkg"). Once the 2 weeks are over we can proceed mass filing those "candidate for removal" bugreports. Once the additional 2 weeks are over the bugreports can be reassigned to ftpmaster. Paolo On 28/01/2017 10:17, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > Quoting Ben Finney (2017-01-28 03:07:01) >> Jérémy Lal <kapo...@melix.org> writes: >> >>> - or having a reverse (build-)dependency, or what's the point ? >> >> I am very much in favour of this: node libraries should be in Debian >> to provide a library that is needed for some actual program of benefit >> to Debian users. > > Agreed. > > >> But my eagerness to remove useless packages makes me worry that some >> useful ones could be swept up also. >> >> One use case I don't see addressed: How will we ensure that a library >> is not needed for some other package not yet uploaded to Debian? > > Removal from testing involves filing a bugreport to ftpmaster. I guess > it makes sense if at all uncertain to first file bugreport against the > package and cc this list - of not-to-high severity - suggesting the > intent (removal from stretch or removal from Debian completely) some > time (2 weeks?) before reasigning to ftpmaster. > > Discussing only here is not adequate: Being part of this team and > subscribing to this mailinglist is voluntary. > > > - Jonas -- Pkg-javascript-devel mailing list Pkg-javascript-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-javascript-devel
