Bug#862051: Allow nodejs to provide /usr/bin/node (draft resolution)
Tollef Fog Heen writes ("Bug#862051: Allow nodejs to provide /usr/bin/node (draft resolution)"):
> 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 The CTTE decision from 2012-07-12 in bug #614907 is repealed.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.
Can you please say that /usr/bin/nodejs should remain indefinitely.
Otherwise someone may get it into their head to get rid of it.
(For Debian to remove it would be to punish people who follow the
previous TC decision and had due regard for the sanity of the global
command namespace.)
Ian.
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