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

[Bastien ROUCARIES]

On Sun, Mar 11, 2018 at 9:15 PM, Bill Allombert <ballombe at debian.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 11, 2018 at 02:48:40PM +0530, Pirate Praveen wrote:
>> > * Some Javascript modules are very small, resulting in lots of small
>> >   packages
>>
>> I think we need to balance the small packages concern with number of
>> times such small packages are used.
>>
>> node-has was rejected recently because it was "too small". I agree if
>> only one, two or even three modules depend on it embedding it is okay (I
>> have been doing that already). But when more than three modules need a
>> tiny module? Is it really better to embed it that many times?
>
> You should not embed them. Instead you can merge several tiny
> modules together and ship them as a single .deb, which eventually
> Provides: node-mod1, node-mod2 etc. So package can still Depends on the
> individual names.

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

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