Re: Bug#862051: Refer #862051 to ctte

2017-07-15 Thread Anthony DeRobertis 

On 07/14/2017 12:57 PM, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:

Fair point.

   3. Once a new nodejs package providing /usr/bin/node is in the
  archive, other packages in the archive are free to depend on the
  nodejs package and use /usr/bin/node .


That should probably be a versioned Depends, at least until a stable 
release includes /usr/bin/node in nodejs. Otherwise upgrades may break.


OTOH, is this paragraph (or 2, for that matter) really needed? They're 
just restating (somewhat imperfectly) Policy and/or normal practice in 
Debian, which presumably come back into effect anyway once the 
2012-07-12 decision is repealed.

Bug#862051: Refer #862051 to ctte

2017-07-15 Thread Josh Triplett 
On Fri, 14 Jul 2017 17:50:56 +0200 Tollef Fog Heen  wrote:
> === DRAFT Resolution ===
> The Technical Committee recognises that circumstances change in ways
> that make previous resolution 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 the stable,
> testing or unstable so the requirement for nodejs to not provide
> /usr/bin/node no longer applies.

There's a missing (or extra) word here. s/unstable/unstable archive/, or
s/in the stable/in stable/.