[Pkg-javascript-devel] Bug#725363: Bug#725363: Bug#725363: present but uninstallable on architectures lacking nodejs

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Quoting Jérémy Lal (2013-10-06 11:40:32)
> On 06/10/2013 11:28, Colin Watson wrote:
> > On Sat, Oct 05, 2013 at 02:53:33PM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> >> Feels to me that it would be better to fix this at its core instead 
> >> of covering over it by use of bogus build-dependency.  I am sure 
> >> you've already considered that option, and would appreciate your 
> >> elaborating more (I saw and tried to follow your conversation on 
> >> irc, but failed to understand it there).
> > 
> > I don't think artificial build-dependencies are a particularly 
> > inappropriate fix.
> > 
> > Any change to britney to try to have it promote only architectures 
> > that worked would amount to accepting permanent technical debt in 
> > unstable, which I think is very poor design.  Package maintainers 
> > should generally be trying to avoid dependency breakage in unstable 
> > where they can as well as in testing (or, to put it another way, 
> > accepting permanent dependency breakage in unstable makes it harder 
> > to see the wood for the trees), and by far the simplest way to do 
> > this is to fix the packages rather than blaming the infrastructure 
> > for pointing out a real problem.
> 
> (I have nothing to say about the general case) for the particular case 
> of node-* packages, it is true that when test suites are or will be 
> run, they will have to build-depend on nodejs. So adding a 
> build-dependency on nodejs for each arch:all module doesn't seem so 
> bad to me today.

Right.  Makes good sense to me too, putting it like that.

Thanks to both of you to help me understand this.


 - Jonas

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