Steve McIntyre wrote: > Ross Gammon wrote: > >* Package name : node-defined > > Version : 1.0.0 > > Upstream Author : James Halliday <m...@substack.net> > >(http://substack.net) > >* URL : https://github.com/substack/defined > >* License : Expat > > Programming Lang: JavaScript > > Description : return the first argument that is `!== undefined` > > > > Most of the time when you chain together ||s, you actually just want the > > first item that is not undefined, not the first non-falsy item. > > . > > This module is like the defined-or (//) operator in perl 5.10+. > > . > > Node.js is an event-based server-side JavaScript engine. > > > >This package is required for tape > >(https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=798278) and will be > >maintained within the Debian Javascript Team. > > YA tiny Javascript "library" containing 3 lines of utterly trivial > code. :-( > > I appreciate you're just following through a dependency chain from > upstream for tape, but please push back on upstream and ask them why > they're doing this kind of ridiculous split-up. Code re-use in general > is a good plan, but not at the level of every trivial helper function > being split out into its own library!
"why" is because node (and other modern languages) make it easy to create a package for any particular bit of reusable code. That Debian fails to support that is Debian's problem, not upstream's. - Josh Triplett
