Hi, I will do some homework, not yet uploaded, but I think that it is more in line for ftpmaster
I have uploaded to mentors for comments: The respective dsc file can be found at: https://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/n/node-function-bind/node-function-bind_1.1.1+ds-1.dsc If you do not yet have a sponsor for your package you may want to go to https://mentors.debian.net/sponsors/rfs-howto/node-function-bind I have not yet uploaded, but here is a tar.xz On Fri, Mar 2, 2018 at 9:46 AM, Joerg Jaspert <jo...@debian.org> wrote: > On 14959 March 1977, Pirate Praveen wrote: >>>>> 8 node modules (all of them dependencies of gitlab) depend on this >>>>> module (colormin, cssnano, eslint-import-resolver-webpack, >>>>> eslint-plugin-import, postcss-merge-idents, postcss-minify-selectors, >>>>> postcss-reduce-transforms, postcss-zindex). Do you think duplicating >>>>> this code 8 times or maintaining 8 patches are better approach than this? >>> For one line code: yes. You can never change this one line anyway. >> I'd like to ask other ftp masters if they agree with this assessment. >> How do we know for sure we will never have to change this line? Even if >> I agree this need not be changed, is having duplicated work 8 times >> still better compromise? > > Duplicate of one line? Yes. > > Leaving out the insanity of ways that node goes with its design of > idiotically small modules for things, lets consider what it means in > Debian terms: > > A one line, no matter if its 20 or 1000 characters long, needs a > package. Upstream with license, readme, maybe tests, in Debian then with > all the stuff in debian/, most files larger than the actual code. > Then you end up with the .deb. Now that and the source get onto mirrors. > And into all packages files, blowing them up. And needing to be > processed in all the various locations all over. > > So we have 114 bytes of code and 50 to a hundred times that size of > metadata, on every mirror. And one more stanza in the packages file to > parse for every tool, yet more data and time at totally unrelated > places. > > Thats why we ended up long ago to deny small packages. Yes, most of node > is small, so we really dislike it, but if its at least a bit more than a > line, we grudgingly accepted it. (Also, actually most of node is unfit > for packaging, neither is the nodejs system made to be packaged, nor is > Debian made to handle this stuff). > > > I think reject faq needs to make it more clear on size, currently its > included in "Package split". I'm unsure what a good value is for minimum > size. It can't be one value. But 114bytes of source? I'm with > Bastian/Chris here. > > -- > bye, Joerg > > -- > Pkg-javascript-devel mailing list > Pkg-javascript-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-javascript-devel -- Pkg-javascript-devel mailing list Pkg-javascript-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-javascript-devel
