Quoting Riku Voipio (2017-01-05 12:53:16) > On Thu, Jan 05, 2017 at 10:53:36AM +0100, Philip Hands wrote: >> At present you are forcing that vast majority of our users, that have >> no interest in this software, to individually learn that they need to >> look out for the node- prefix, and ignore such packages.
Thanks, Philip, for raising this concern. I agree with it. > Vast majority of users would only install this via dependencies. It's > hardly a node-specific problem that debian package searches output > large amount of packages that are not useful unless you happen to be a > programmer. ...and I agree that the issue is not specific to node-* packages, but I find it is quite common there. Quite likely due to recent inclusion of lots of packages, prepared semi-automated - as Philip pointed out very well. > The only people installing node libs directly would be node > developers, for whom matching description with upstream project is > valuable. If the description is not useful for developer either ( for > example "Itty bitty little widdle twinkie pinkie" ), better propose > the upstream project a more concise description, than to carry extra > delta in debian. It seems you argue that package descriptions need not make sense beyond the package section they belong to. I disagree, and it seems Debian Policy disagrees too - see ยง 3.4: > The description should describe the package (the program) to a user > (system administrator) who has never met it before so that they have > enough information to decide whether they want to install it. This > description should not just be copied verbatim from the program's > documentation. - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private