Re: [Pkg-javascript-devel] Javascript team policy and rejection of node-three binary package [and 1 more messages]

2018-03-12 Thread Pirate Praveen
On March 12, 2018 3:34:26 AM GMT+05:30, Bastien ROUCARIES wrote: >Done for node-has using node-function-bind but it break uscan for >node-has > >Bill could you get a glimpse, I will like to create something more >robust I think it is better to create a native Debian package (so no need for usc

Re: Javascript team policy and rejection of node-three binary package [and 1 more messages]

2018-03-11 Thread Pirate Praveen
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 nod

Re: Javascript team policy and rejection of node-three binary package [and 1 more messages]

2018-03-11 Thread Pirate Praveen
On വെള്ളി 09 മാർച്ച് 2018 08:39 വൈകു, Simon McVittie wrote: > I think saying "script" is perhaps unhelpful here, because outside > Javascript, that usually refers to something executable with #! at the > beginning. > > It might be clearer to think about this in terms of libraries and > executables

Re: Javascript team policy and rejection of node-three binary package [and 1 more messages]

2018-03-09 Thread Pirate Praveen
On വെള്ളി 09 മാർച്ച് 2018 04:48 വൈകു, Ian Jackson wrote: > But: > >> 2. We won't be able to specify a minimum version of nodejs for these >> modules. For example, node-regexpu-core required nodejs >= 6 and >> this prevented its testing migration for a long time because testing >> only had nodejs

Re: [Pkg-javascript-devel] Javascript team policy and rejection of node-three binary package

2018-03-08 Thread Pirate Praveen
On ചൊവ്വ 06 മാർച്ച് 2018 07:57 വൈകു, Ian Jackson wrote: > Simon is asking the same questions as I was earlier. Sorry for > posting before reading the whole thread. > > Is this going to be common ? The Javascript ecosystem has large > numbers of small packages - but do they mostly contain just JS

Re: Javascript team policy and rejection of node-three binary package

2018-03-08 Thread Pirate Praveen
On ചൊവ്വ 06 മാർച്ച് 2018 07:52 വൈകു, Ian Jackson wrote: > I do think that the Javascript policy has to be not in a wiki page. > We can't have normative references from debian-policy to wiki pages. > > Pirate, is there some Debian-specific Javascript dev infrastructure > package that could host thi

Re: Javascript team policy and rejection of node-three binary package

2018-03-08 Thread Pirate Praveen
On ചൊവ്വ 06 മാർച്ച് 2018 07:42 വൈകു, Ian Jackson wrote: > Pirate Praveen writes ("Javascript team policy and rejection of node-three > binary package"): >> 1. Node.js has standard locations for discovering installed packages >> which is different from browser t

Re: [Pkg-javascript-devel] Javascript team policy and rejection of node-three binary package

2018-03-05 Thread Pirate Praveen
On വെള്ളി 02 മാർച്ച് 2018 09:57 വൈകു, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > I generally read team policies with an implicit "...as long as it > doesn't conflict with the general Debian Policy". > > Specifically, I read the "should" in above quote as "in most cases, but > not a "must". > > We have in the Ja

Re: [Pkg-javascript-devel] Javascript team policy and rejection of node-three binary package

2018-03-04 Thread Pirate Praveen
On March 4, 2018 3:15:24 AM GMT+05:30, Simon McVittie wrote: >Am I right in saying that nodejs-handlebars (or libjs-handlebars or >some >such) contains both a command-line tool, handlebars(1) (or similar), >and >a library named handlebars for node.js? Yes. handlebars binary package includes /us

Re: [Pkg-javascript-devel] Javascript team policy and rejection of node-three binary package

2018-03-03 Thread Pirate Praveen
On വെള്ളി 02 മാർച്ച് 2018 09:57 വൈകു, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > I generally read team policies with an implicit "...as long as it > doesn't conflict with the general Debian Policy". > > Specifically, I read the "should" in above quote as "in most cases, but > not a "must". > > We have in the Ja

Re: Javascript team policy and rejection of node-three binary package

2018-03-03 Thread Pirate Praveen
On വെള്ളി 02 മാർച്ച് 2018 09:25 വൈകു, Sean Whitton wrote: > Hello, > > On Fri, Mar 02 2018, Pirate Praveen wrote: > >> I think the policy is good and request debian policy team to endorse >> it. > > The way forward is to add the JavaScript policy to the debian-poli

Javascript team policy and rejection of node-three binary package

2018-03-02 Thread Pirate Praveen
[As suggested by Ian Jackson on -devel] [0] Hi, Javascript maintainers team have evolved a policy for javascript packages and it is available at https://wiki.debian.org/Javascript/Policy Its last point says, 5. should generate a node-foo binary package if the script is usable also for Nodejs Bu