Re: [Pkg-javascript-devel] Javascript team policy and rejection of node-three binary package

2018-03-06 Thread Sean Whitton
, and perhaps incorporating them into our package is the way to do that. But that's a discussion for another day.) -- Sean Whitton signature.asc Description: PGP signature -- Pkg-javascript-devel mailing list Pkg-javascript-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-javascript-devel

Re: [Pkg-javascript-devel] Javascript team policy and rejection of node-three binary package

2018-03-02 Thread Sean Whitton
ring seconds etc.), so we would want to ensure the policy is more complete than it is now. If you want to go ahead and do this, please file a bug against debian-policy, with a patch that adds the JavaScript policy to our repo. (There wouldn't be much point in filing such a bug without a patc

[Pkg-javascript-devel] Bug#877212: Bug#877212: node-d3-color: B-D npm not available in testing

2017-10-03 Thread Sean Whitton
isuse of contrib. You're right to point out that the decision as to whether it was a misuse was the ftp-master's. -- Sean Whitton signature.asc Description: PGP signature -- Pkg-javascript-devel mailing list Pkg-javascript-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-javascript-devel

[Pkg-javascript-devel] Bug#877212: Bug#877212: node-d3-color: B-D npm not available in testing

2017-10-03 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello Jérémy, On Tue, Oct 03 2017, Jérémy Lal wrote: > It might be a good idea to make policy more explicit about downloads > during build. I'm not sure how it could be more explicit: For packages in the main archive, no required targets may attempt network access. -- S

[Pkg-javascript-devel] Bug#877212: Bug#877212: node-d3-color: B-D npm not available in testing

2017-09-30 Thread Sean Whitton
would > fulfill one of the widely accepted use cases for contrib (needs > something currently not in Debian to build, but is otherwise free > software - see e.g. the VirtualBox BIOS requiring a non-free compiler) > much closer than downloading stuff from the network. This does seem preferab

[Pkg-javascript-devel] Bug#877212: Bug#877212: node-d3-color: B-D npm not available in testing

2017-09-30 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello Pirate, On Sun, Oct 01 2017, Pirate Praveen wrote: > On 09/30/2017 09:26 PM, Sean Whitton wrote: >> To my mind, this complies with the letter of Policy but not its >> spirit. > > The whole purpose of having contrib and non-free is to host packages > that

[Pkg-javascript-devel] Bug#877212: Bug#877212: node-d3-color: B-D npm not available in testing

2017-09-30 Thread Sean Whitton
> Hence this is in contrib and not main (hence complying with policy), > and this is a temporary step until we get rollup in main. To my mind, this complies with the letter of Policy but not its spirit. Could you explain why it is so urgent to have node-d3-color in Debian that it can't w