Quoting Julian Gilbey (2022-12-11 22:20:47) > On Sun, Dec 11, 2022 at 09:38:12PM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > Quoting Julian Gilbey (2022-12-11 21:04:39) > > > > > Maybe create just a node-webfont package with embedded dependencies > > > > > > That does seem like a sensible idea - I hadn't thought of doing that > > > until I read the wiki (there's a theme here!). I doubt that most of > > > the packages required by webfont would be needed by other packages. > > > > Please don't hide embedding dependencies, but install them and provide > > them as virtual packages. > > > > It is not only a matter of them being concretely needed by other > > packages *now* but also being easily able to locate them if needed > > *later* and for other reasons - e.g. security bugfixes. > > Hi Jonas, > > https://wiki.debian.org/Javascript/GroupSourcesTutorial explicitly > advises doing this. I agree with your points, so I'm a little > confused. > > I realise, though, that I don't know exactly what you mean by "install > them and provide them as virtual packages"; is it the point made in > "Step 2" on that Wiki page about adding them to d/control as Provides? > If so, then I think what is meant is: we include them all in a single > source and binary package, in this case node-webfont, but that package > should install these embedded node packages in /usr/share/nodejs/ as > normal (and not under /usr/share/nodejs/webfont) and declare Provides: > node-... for all of these dependencies. > > Have I understood correctly?
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