W. Martin Borgert dijo [Fri, Feb 16, 2018 at 06:59:21PM +0100]: > If I understand Samuels idea correctly, he likes to have multiple > versions of the same (JavaScript) library installed on Debian. > Not "stuff", but proper Debian packages, with all bells and whistles. > Only that you don't remove necessarily the old version, when the new > one comes in. Similar to C libraries, kernel, etc. but with a different > way to actually use the files, of course. > (...) > This is very much a web application problem. Other software is > less affected in my experience. > > Maybe we just have to package JS libraries with their version > number in the package name in the first place? While I agree with you, just the number of node-.* (1249) or libjs-.* (398) packages (which tend to fall within this fast-paced development culture) makes me shiver... Who will maintain them at different compatibility levels? Even more so if their upstreams have effectively abandoned them?
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