[Pkg-javascript-devel] Bug#877212: Bug#877212: node-d3-color: B-D npm not available in testing

2017-10-05 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Oct 03, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > So, contrib is _explicitly_ meant for software that does not meet the > DFSG, not for random stuff that cannot be packaged for convenience or > different issues. I am almost sure that when I joined the project contrib was also the place for

[Pkg-javascript-devel] Bug#877212: Bug#877212: node-d3-color: B-D npm not available in testing

2017-10-04 Thread Philip Hands
Sean Whitton writes: > Hello Jérémy, > > On Tue, Oct 03 2017, Jérémy Lal wrote: > >> It might be a good idea to make policy more explicit about downloads >> during build. > > I'm not sure how it could be more explicit: > > For packages in the main archive, no

[Pkg-javascript-devel] Bug#877212: Bug#877212: node-d3-color: B-D npm not available in testing

2017-10-04 Thread Ian Jackson
Pirate Praveen writes ("Re: [Pkg-javascript-devel] Bug#877212: node-d3-color: B-D npm not available in testing"): > Lets take the two issues separately. > > 1. Whether they are suitable for contrib I don't think that this is what contrib is for. Contrib exists as par

Re: [Pkg-javascript-devel] Bug#877212: Bug#877212: node-d3-color: B-D npm not available in testing

2017-10-04 Thread Pirate Praveen
On ബുധന്‍ 04 ഒക്ടോബര്‍ 2017 02:07 വൈകു, Philip Hands wrote: > The problem seems to be that Praveen reads that prohibition as implying > that it is totally OK to do this when not in main. > > This strikes me as equivalent to reading: > > All men are mortal, > Socrates is a man, > > and

Re: [Pkg-javascript-devel] Bug#877212: Bug#877212: node-d3-color: B-D npm not available in testing

2017-10-03 Thread Ross Gammon
On 10/04/2017 05:50 AM, Sean Whitton wrote: > Hello Jérémy, > > On Tue, Oct 03 2017, Jérémy Lal wrote: > >> It might be a good idea to make policy more explicit about downloads >> during build. > I'm not sure how it could be more explicit: > > For packages in the main archive, no required

[Pkg-javascript-devel] Bug#877212: Bug#877212: node-d3-color: B-D npm not available in testing

2017-10-03 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello Pirate, On Tue, Oct 03 2017, Pirate Praveen wrote: > Alternatively, those who care enough about the issue can help get > these tools into main. I have been doing just that over the last years > (grunt, gulp, babel, jison, webpack to name a few, each with 100s of > dependencies) so many of

[Pkg-javascript-devel] Bug#877212: Bug#877212: node-d3-color: B-D npm not available in testing

2017-10-03 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello Jérémy, On Tue, Oct 03 2017, Jérémy Lal wrote: > It might be a good idea to make policy more explicit about downloads > during build. I'm not sure how it could be more explicit: For packages in the main archive, no required targets may attempt network access. -- Sean Whitton

Re: [Pkg-javascript-devel] Bug#877212: Bug#877212: node-d3-color: B-D npm not available in testing

2017-10-03 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Jérémy Lal dijo [Tue, Oct 03, 2017 at 07:46:43PM +0200]: > It might be a good idea to make policy more explicit about downloads during > build. I completely agree. This led me to look at #813471 ("network access to the loopback device should be allowed"), and... Well, it seems to set the stage to

Re: [Pkg-javascript-devel] Bug#877212: Bug#877212: node-d3-color: B-D npm not available in testing

2017-10-03 Thread Jérémy Lal
2017-10-03 19:34 GMT+02:00 Gunnar Wolf : > Pirate Praveen dijo [Tue, Oct 03, 2017 at 12:12:54PM +0530]: > > > I am completely with Sean here; I read the following messages, and am > > > happy a better resolution was found. But, FWIW, I'll support Sean's > > > interpretation -

[Pkg-javascript-devel] Bug#877212: Bug#877212: node-d3-color: B-D npm not available in testing

2017-09-30 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello, On Sat, Sep 30 2017, Christian Seiler wrote: > Ack. Wouldn't it be preferable to just include a copy of the prebuilt > node-d3-color "binary" alongside its actual source tarball and have > debian/rules just copy the prebuilt "binary" for now? That would > fulfill one of the widely

[Pkg-javascript-devel] Bug#877212: Bug#877212: node-d3-color: B-D npm not available in testing

2017-09-30 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello Pirate, On Sun, Oct 01 2017, Pirate Praveen wrote: > On 09/30/2017 09:26 PM, Sean Whitton wrote: >> To my mind, this complies with the letter of Policy but not its >> spirit. > > The whole purpose of having contrib and non-free is to host packages > that can't be in main, either

[Pkg-javascript-devel] Bug#877212: Bug#877212: node-d3-color: B-D npm not available in testing

2017-09-30 Thread Pirate Praveen
On 09/30/2017 01:30 PM, Andreas Beckmann wrote: > Unstable is not outside the archive. But that dos not seem logical. Does it mean these packages can stay in testing if we remove npm from unstable? signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- Pkg-javascript-devel mailing list

[Pkg-javascript-devel] Bug#877212: Bug#877212: node-d3-color: B-D npm not available in testing

2017-09-30 Thread Pirate Praveen
On വെള്ളി 29 സെപ്റ്റംബര്‍ 2017 10:54 വൈകു, Andreas Beckmann wrote: > Hi, > > with npm not available in testing (and according to #857986 this will > not change in the near future), these node-* packages must be kept > out of testing, since they cannot be rebuilt in testing (regardless of > any

[Pkg-javascript-devel] Bug#877212: Bug#877212: node-d3-color: B-D npm not available in testing

2017-09-29 Thread Jérémy Lal
2017-09-29 19:24 GMT+02:00 Andreas Beckmann : > Package: node-d3-color > Version: 1.0.3-1 > Severity: serious > Justification: Build-Depends not satisfiable in testing > Control: block -1 with 857986 > Control: clone -1 -2 -3 -4 -5 -6 -7 -8 -9 -10 > Control: reassign -2