2017-08-01 7:59 GMT+02:00 Ross Gammon <[email protected]>: > 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]>: > >> >> 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 The CTTE decision from 2012-07-12 in bug #614907 is repealed.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? >
I suppose it's important enough to, yes. Jérémy
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