2017-10-26 21:03 GMT+02:00 Sruthi Chandran <s...@disroot.org>: > On Tue, 13 Jun 2017 10:49:29 +0200 Jérémy Lal <kapo...@melix.org> wrote: > > 2017-06-13 10:11 GMT+02:00 Alexandre Rossi <alexandre.ro...@gmail.com>: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > Any status update on this? Did the effort trying to release with > > > embedded deps hit a wall? How can I help? > > > > > > > > Right now npm 5 depends indirectly on both "request" and "got" modules, > > which are doing exactly the same thing. Maintaining this requires an > amount > > of forgiveness i don't have right now. > > > > Anyway here's what you would want to do: > > - start from an empty debian/copyright file (to avoid old dfsg > repackagings) > > - import new upstream tarball > > - populate debian/copyright (including everything in node_modules as > well), > > it shouldn't be that difficult. > > > > With this approach the only maintenance burden will be to update > > debian/copyright. > > Next step will be up to ftpmasters to decide if it's okay to bundle > > everything in > > that particular case. > > > > Jérémy > > I was thinking of packaging npm (by packaging individual modules) > working full-time for around one month. I plan to launch a crowd-funding > campaign similar to ones launched for packaging grunt[1] and gulp[2]. > Before going ahead with that, wanted to know the status of your plan of > packaging npm. Is your plan still on or shall I go ahead with my plan? >
My plan depends on me being available in some parallel universe. So YES please please please go ahead, may debian force be with you. I might provide some help for technical issues. Or not, depending on availability. Jérémy
