Re: Javascript team policy and rejection of node-three binary package [and 1 more messages]

[Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>]

On Sun, Mar 11, 2018 at 02:48:40PM +0530, Pirate Praveen wrote:
> > * Some Javascript modules are very small, resulting in lots of small
> >   packages
> 
> I think we need to balance the small packages concern with number of
> times such small packages are used.
> 
> node-has was rejected recently because it was "too small". I agree if
> only one, two or even three modules depend on it embedding it is okay (I
> have been doing that already). But when more than three modules need a
> tiny module? Is it really better to embed it that many times?

You should not embed them. Instead you can merge several tiny
modules together and ship them as a single .deb, which eventually
Provides: node-mod1, node-mod2 etc. So package can still Depends on the
individual names.

Cheers,
-- 
Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>

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