I'm new to this sort of edict. After reading http://bugs.debian.org/614907, is saying "fuck you" an appropriate response? Serious question.
My favorite part, is when the debian developers start accusing each other of clandestinely working with the node core team to "run crying to the techinical commmitte". Either way, I'm not the maintainer of the node's Debian package. nor do I use Debian. The only experience I've had around this issue is the 100 or so support cases I've had to deal with of people installing Node from a linux package manager, only to have it be out of date, then experiencing conflicting installation issues for users who try to build latest from source. On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 2:41 PM, Carl Fürstenberg <azat...@gmail.com> wrote: > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Don Armstrong <d...@debian.org> > Date: Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 8:59 PM > Subject: [CTTE #614907] Resolution of node/nodejs conflict > To: debian-devel-annou...@lists.debian.org > > > > === Resolution === > The Technical Committee reaffirms the importance of preventing namespace > collisions for programs in the distribution, while recognizing that > compatibility with upstreams and with previous Debian releases is also > important and that sometimes an imperfect balance must be struck between > these three goals. > > The Committee therefore resolves that: > > 1. The nodejs package shall be changed to provide /usr/bin/nodejs, not > /usr/bin/node. The package shall declare a Breaks: relationship with > any > packages in Debian that reference /usr/bin/node. > 2. The nodejs source package shall also provide a nodejs-legacy binary > package at Priority: extra that contains /usr/bin/node as a symlink to > /usr/bin/nodejs. No package in the archive may depend on or recommend > the nodejs-legacy package, which is provided solely for upstream > compatibility. This package shall also declare a Conflicts: > relationship > with the node package. > 3. The node source package shall rename its binary to /usr/sbin/ax25-node, > and its binary package to ax25-node. > 4. The node source package shall continue to build a transitional 'node' > binary package for compatibility with deployed Debian installations, > which provides /usr/sbin/node as a symlink to /usr/sbin/ax25-node. This > package shall declare a reciprocal Conflicts: relationship with the > nodejs-legacy package. Other packages may reference the 'node' package > as a dependency or recommendation, but are encouraged to transition to > 'ax25-node'. > 5. The maintainers of these packages are required to implement the above > changes immediately in unstable. Failing that, the Technical Committee > reserves the right to NMU to implement these changes. > 6. Once the above changes are implemented, the packages shall be considered > suitable for release with respect to the Debian policy on conflicting > packages. > > === End Resolution === > > Please see http://bugs.debian.org/614907 for the background and > discussion. > > > Don Armstrong > > -- > I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended > up where I needed to be. > -- Douglas Adams _The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul_ > > http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu > > > -- > Carl Fürstenberg > > -- > Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ > Posting guidelines: > https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "nodejs" group. > To post to this group, send email to nodejs@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > nodejs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en > -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to nodejs@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nodejs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en
