Re: [Pkg-javascript-devel] Node.js and it's future in debian
Patrick Ouellette <pouelle@debian.org> writes:
> Of course the #! line is not the issue. The issue is two upstream
> maintainers separated by years and miles selected the same generic name
> for their binary file.
I agree with this.
> Compounding the issue, some Debian Maintainer seeking to better the
> project by packaging additional software for the project failed to
> perform "due diligence" in researching if any of the binary names from
> the proposed new package were already in use. Having packaged the
> software and uploaded it, someone noticed the issue and started us down
> the path we are on.
Maybe we should short-circuit this part of the conversation, since it
doesn't sound like you're horribly interested in agreeing to change the
name of node in the existing package. :)
I think it would make sense to take this to the Technical Committee at
this point and just make a decision, unless anyone thinks something
substantially new is likely to turn up. (We should probably give it a few
more days to see if anything does, but it's feeling increasingly unlikely
to me, as is the idea that we're all going to reach a consensus.)
--
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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