Hi,
We have been discussing browserified _javascript_ situation in debian for
sometime. We decided to spent one full month on packaging browserify if
we can raise enough money via crowd funding. See
http://igg.me/at/debian-browserify for more details.
Hoping to have a good solution to this problem, if not in time for
stretch, at least for stretch+1 for sure.
But we'd still love to have an exception for stretch [1] as we may not
be able to fix all the packages in time for stretch or even complete
this task itself for strecth.
Note: Some packages would still need grunt or gulp I think, but probably
with some changes they could be briwserified using browserify itself.