[Pkg-javascript-devel] Bug#754462: Bug#862051: Bug#754462: Bug#862051: nodejs (6.11.2~dfsg-1) experimental; urgency=medium

Sam Hartman hartmans at debian.org
Thu Aug 31 17:01:39 UTC 2017


>>>>> "Julien" == Julien Puydt <julien.puydt at laposte.net> writes:

    Julien> Hi, Le 31/08/2017 à 13:52, Jérémy Lal a écrit :
    >> How about printing a "nice" warning explaining it would be a good
    >> idea to move to /usr/bin/node ? Then in next next release drop
    >> the nodejs symlink.

    Julien> May I suggest to have /usr/bin/nodejs print a nice
    Julien> deprecation warning to use /usr/bin/node, and just *never*
    Julien> remove it?

Having it print a deprecation warning will break pipes or other
situations where stdout and stderr are captured.
I'd just use a symlink.
We have release notes and debian/news for warnings if we believe that's
the right approach.



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