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Re: Request to fast track gitlab dependencies



On Mon, 19 Nov 2018, Pirate Praveen wrote:

> On 11/16/18 11:19 PM, Alexander Wirt wrote:
> > And I think you already have too many packages. 
> 
> A big factor is small node modules and our initial strategy of packaging
> each module separately. Recently we started aggressively cutting down on
> number of node packages by embedding simple modules. 90+ packages in NEW
> got rejected [1].
> 
> Added to that npm was neglected in debian for a long time and was not in
> stretch adding to the long list of packages for stretch-backports.
> 
> Otherwise its natural to have more dependencies when packaging large and
> complex software like gitlab, diaspora or openstack.
Otherwise its natural to have those things team maintained. 

Alex

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