On Fri, Sep 27, 2024 at 06:50:25PM +0000, Bastien Roucariès wrote: > Le vendredi 27 septembre 2024, 16:18:45 UTC Julian Gilbey a écrit : > > On Fri, Sep 27, 2024 at 11:55:16AM -0400, Louis-Philippe Véronneau wrote: > > > On 2024-09-25 15:20, Julian Gilbey wrote: > > > > Package: lintian > > > > Version: 2.118.2 > > > > Severity: normal > > > > > > > > With the node-async 3.2.6+dfsg-* upload, libjs-async has disappeared > > > > from unstable, and once it migrates to testing, it will be gone from > > > > testing too. Please can this lintian warning be updated to refer to > > > > node-async instead of libjs-async (and node-async itself should > > > > presumably have an override in lintian for this warning). > > > > > > > > Best wishes, > > > > > > > > Julian > > > > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > Thanks for opening this bug. I'm not sure recommending people use > > > node-async > > > is the right thing to do? > > > > > > libjs-async provided /usr/share/javascript/async/async.js and > > > /usr/share/javascript/async/async.min.js, which is not provided by > > > node-async itself. > > > > > > I'm not very familiar with the JS ecosystem, but it seems a package > > > maintainer that would want to replace an embedded copy of async.js thus > > > couldn't use the new package. > > > > > > Maybe we could just drop the recommendation altogether? > > > > > > Happy to make the change you propose if I'm wrong though. > > > > > > Cheers, > > > > Hi Louis-Philippe, > > > > Good question! Presumably people would have hand-modified their code > > to include a symlink to the file in /usr/share/javascript; the > > equivalent file in node-async is /usr/share/nodejs/async/dist/async.js > > which "should" do the same thing, so people "should" just have to > > update their link (but no guarantees; I'm also not a JavaScript > > expert!). > > Whith javascript hat they should update the link and add versioned depends > > Bastien
Oh, and not a single package in testing depends on libjs-async, so nothing will need to be updated for this change. Best wishes, Julian
