(+cc: nod...@packages.debian.org. Sorry for the noise.)
Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> Patrick Ouellette wrote:
>> You claim to not use either package, but yet you advocate for the node.js
>> package to keep the executable name "node" - this is strange to me.
>
> Sorry, I must have been unclear.
A few more words of clarification:
It might seems strange that someone using neither package cares about
these bugs. So here is why I care:
1. I use Debian. I do not want it to be broken (one aspect of "broken"
is the same command having different effects depending on which
package is installed). My experience is that for better or worse, if
the project can't fix a bug like this one, new maintainers of other
packages in similar situations will take it as an example and
introduce even more breakage.
2. Ham radio projects seem neat to me. Lots of nice people,
including John Goerzen, are ham radio operators. It would be nice
to make sure Debian continues to make their lives pleasant and
makes my life pleasant if I ever acquire the appropriate hardware.
3. node.js seems neat to me. Lots of nice people including Jonas
Smedegaard use it to program. I imagine that at some point in the
future, even if I never start to use the language myself, I might
find myself running programs using it (like has happened to me
with ruby already).
I hope you care some small amount about packages you don't currently use,
too. :)
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