On 07/31/2017 08:05 PM, Jérémy Lal wrote: > Hi team, > > 2017-07-31 19:17 GMT+02:00 Tollef Fog Heen <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>>: > > > The technical committee was asked in bug #862051 to revisit the > decision in > bug #614907 (conflict between the ax25-node package and the nodejs > package). > > === Resolution === > > The Technical Committee recognises that circumstances change in ways > that make previous resolutions no longer appropriate. In 2012, it was > resolved that the nodejs package should not provide /usr/bin/node > due to > the historical conflict with the ax25-node package. Node.js is still > quite popular and the ax25-node package is no longer in stable, > testing > or unstable so the requirement for nodejs to not provide /usr/bin/node > no longer applies. > > The Committee therefore resolves that: > > 1. The CTTE decision from 2012-07-12 in bug #614907 is repealed. > > This means Debian's normal policies and practices take over and the > nodejs package is free to provide /usr/bin/node. The migration should > be managed according to Debian's usual backwards-compatibility > arrangements. > > === End Resolution === > > Please see http://bugs.debian.org/862051 for discussion of this bug. > > > Next time i'll upload nodejs, it will be with /usr/bin/node and > /usr/bin/nodejs. > After that, please stop patching modules shebangs. > I suspect it is a bad idea to keep /usr/bin/nodejs forever, so > hopefully it will > be possible to remove it before buster. > > Regards, > Jérémy. > > >
Once that is done, I will tweak https://wiki.debian.org/Javascript/Nodejs/Manual and https://wiki.debian.org/Javascript/Nodejs for new team members if you like. Should we eventually add something to the buster release notes to warn those users/developers that might have been unaware of nodejs-legacy, and developed their own stuff using /usr/bin/nodejs? Or is that likely to be a rare situation? Cheers, Ross
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