On 19.05.2017 04:13, James Lu wrote: > In 2012, the decision was made to rename Node.js' "node" name to > nodejs-legacy, and transition the existing "node" package to ax25-node. > However, ax25-node (and the "node" package following) were removed in > 2015 citing lack of activity:
As already mentioned, I'm completely against that. Both packages had a really bad naming decision. The fact that ax25-node just fallen out of the official repos (lots of people still use it), shouldn't serve as excuse for reintroducing that bad naming again. > Thus, would it be possible to revert the original decision, and rename > nodejs back to node in the next Debian release? Would break lots of debianized js stuff. You're proprosing a huge breaking change. > Doing so would make working with JavaScript programs outside of > Debian a lot easier, as projects tend to hardcode the "node" > interpreter name. Hardcoding the interpreter is a very bad coding style. The correct way is letting npm fill in the right (build env given) command. I've already submitted patches to upstream - let's see what they do about that. --mtx -- Pkg-javascript-devel mailing list Pkg-javascript-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-javascript-devel