On 12-08-06 at 03:12pm, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > On 06.08.2012 14:20, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > >Please unblock package nodejs > > > >We have now adjusted nodejs as ruled by tech-ctte at > > > ><https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2012/07/msg00002.html>, > >and consider it ready for inclusion in Wheezy. > > I'm afraid that, at least imo, more than a month after freeze is far > too late to be adding substantial new packages to Wheezy - > particularly as I assume a successful unblock would be followed by > requests to unblock all of the reverse dependencies. Thanks for looking at this so swiftly. I understand the worry of a slippery slope of "opening the gates to everything Nodejs". I do find it sensible, however, to consider e.g. one of these subsets: 1) nodejs 2) nodejs + uglifyjs 3) nodejs + ugifyjs + revert inferior fix for bug#679665 True that Nodejs has never entered testing before. Code has been stable and usable in unstable for more than a year, however. Only reason it didn't progress was the node/nodejs issue. Doing 1) would promote the node → nodejs change to the World, whereas postponing till next stable release would likely cause the (from Debian POV) badly names "node" to stick much harder in the larger FLOSS ecosystem. Doing 1) would also ease the kickstart for Nodejs users tremendously, as it has proven quite a difficult beast to tame individually at each host needing it. Doing 2) would additionally allow users of jquery (for which I suspect there are many!) to locally minify the code which is currently pretty much unusable for serving content for the web (instead of the already quite large 95k minified the fix for bug#679665 made the package offer only the non-minified 252k file. Doing 3) would make a long list of packages (300 in unstable currently) suitable for serving via web, not only locally, out of the box. Please reconsider unblocking nodejs: It is quite usable even if not letting in all of the node libraries as well. Kind regards, - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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