Bug#934948: Unnecessary dependencies vs multiple binary packages

2019-09-02 Thread Pirate Praveen
On Sat, 24 Aug 2019 02:40:29 -0400 Scott Kitterman wrote: > How small is too small is a judgement call may be the FTP team member > reviewing the package. Different people will not always make the same > judgement. This is a straw man argument here. Neither the comment on node-autoprefixer nor

Bug#934948: Unnecessary dependencies vs multiple binary packages

2019-09-01 Thread Pirate Praveen
On Sat, 24 Aug 2019 02:40:29 -0400 Scott Kitterman wrote: > Unless someone can figure out an actual resolvable controversy, I don't seen > any point in bothering other FTP team members with this. To the extent > anything is being requested, it seems like it's infeasible (write down exact > rule

Bug#934948: Unnecessary dependencies vs multiple binary packages

2019-09-01 Thread Pirate Praveen
On Mon, 26 Aug 2019 13:55:11 +0100 Simon McVittie wrote: > That doesn't answer my question. > > I looked at this executable again and it seems as though its purpose is > to query metadata about the autoprefixer nodejs library, analogous to > the -config programs sometimes found in -dev packages (

Bug#934948: Unnecessary dependencies vs multiple binary packages

2019-08-26 Thread Simon McVittie
On Wed, 21 Aug 2019 at 22:59:50 +0530, Pirate Praveen wrote: > On 2019, ഓഗസ്റ്റ് 21 7:06:34 PM IST, Simon McVittie wrote: > >* As far as I can tell, the command-line executable > >`.../bin/autoprefixer` > > is not in the PATH. I don't know whether it is run automatically in > > some other way, a

Bug#934948: Unnecessary dependencies vs multiple binary packages

2019-08-23 Thread Scott Kitterman
Looking back at the original mail, it seems like the main complaint is that the two packages were treated differently. The easiest resolution to that problem is to go ahead and remove node-autoprefixer. That'll solve the inconsistency. How small is too small is a judgement call may be the FTP

Bug#934948: Unnecessary dependencies vs multiple binary packages

2019-08-22 Thread Ian Jackson
Hi, Simon. Thanks for the writeup which makes things much more comprehensible. Simon McVittie writes ("Bug#934948: Unnecessary dependencies vs multiple binary packages"): > * All correctly-packaged Ruby libraries have a dependency on the Ruby > interpreter, regardless of w

Bug#934948: Unnecessary dependencies vs multiple binary packages

2019-08-21 Thread Pirate Praveen
On 2019, ഓഗസ്റ്റ് 21 7:06:34 PM IST, Simon McVittie wrote: >On Sat, 17 Aug 2019 at 11:20:22 +0530, Pirate Praveen wrote: >> I'd like to bring to your notice a disagreement with ftp masters >about adding >> multiple binary packages when the same source package has code >targeting >> multiple env

Bug#934948: Unnecessary dependencies vs multiple binary packages

2019-08-21 Thread Simon McVittie
On Sat, 17 Aug 2019 at 11:20:22 +0530, Pirate Praveen wrote: > I'd like to bring to your notice a disagreement with ftp masters about adding > multiple binary packages when the same source package has code targeting > multiple environments. While attempting to construct a summary of the situation

Bug#934948: Unnecessary dependencies vs multiple binary packages

2019-08-16 Thread Pirate Praveen
Package: tech-ctte Hi members of CTTE, I'd like to bring to your notice a disagreement with ftp masters about adding multiple binary packages when the same source package has code targeting multiple environments. I have been told already that CTTE cannot overrule an ftp master decision, so I'm