On ഞായര് 11 മാർച്ച് 2018 04:59 വൈകു, Simon McVittie wrote: > The reason I suggested that restriction was to avoid having contradictory > requirements: if node-foo is the naming convention for the module > that lets nodejs users require('foo'), and node-foo is also the naming > convention for a nodejs executable that upstream refer to as foo where > foo is too generic for Debian, then we might get a collision between > the requirements for libraries and the requirements for executables. > > But perhaps I'm being overly paranoid there, because the main extra > requirement for executables with nodejs as an interpreter is "must depend > on nodejs", and for a package named node-* that's hardly a burden.
In case of conflict, we can add js suffix to the executable. node -> nodejs, babel -> babeljs. The binary can be foo (since it has foo command) and it can provide node-foo (since require 'foo' works).
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