On 11/12/2022 22:20, Julian Gilbey wrote:
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?
If you use dh-sequence-nodejs, just add "Provides: ${nodejs:Provides}" and:
echo '*' >debian/nodejs/root_modules
Cheers,
Yadd
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