On Fri, Sep 01, 2017 at 11:41:36AM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
> One thing you I would consider is that it would be nice if scripts in
> Debian packages were made more portable to other distros. So Debian
> packages should gradually change to use /usr/bin/node. I am very
> conservative about these things because I like to keep backporting
> (within Debian) as easy as possible. So if I were the maintainer of a
> node.js package which had scripts mentioning /usr/bin/nodejs, I would
> probably make that change in buster+1 rather than in buster.
It's enough to depend on
nodejs (>= 6.11.2~dfsg-1) | nodejs-legacy
And then you can backport it to whatever debian release you like the
most.
> In buster+1 you should probably consider asking for a lintian warning
> about references to /usr/bin/nodejs. Not because you intend to drop
> /usr/bin/nodejs ever (why do that - see previous emails) but because
> it would be better, as I've just discussed, for Debian packages to
> contain fewer hurdles to adoption elsewhere.
That's already done.
https://anonscm.debian.org/git/lintian/lintian.git/commit/?id=4ea7bdf953e1fb23bfc85830ad743efaf0ad0373
https://anonscm.debian.org/git/lintian/lintian.git/commit/?id=7d0c0732e792cf0a0cadeb583c9878463813e24a
(will be in the next lintian release)
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