On Sat, Jul 12, 2014 at 12:55:02PM +0200, Leo Iannacone wrote: >On 12 July 2014 12:35, Steve McIntyre <st...@einval.com> wrote: >> >> tack:~/debian/ms.js$ wc -l index.js >> 111 index.js >> >> Am I missing something, or is the working code in this package really >> just 111 lines? Why isn't this bundled up into something more >> reasonable in size for the packaging system? > >No, you're right. It is really small. > >But, after discussing this in JavaScript team we ended up that it is >better have separated packages, instead of having a big >"nodejs-common" (or whatever) package, in order to properly track >upstream releases individually.
Right. Did you discuss that with ftpmaster or anybody else outside of the javascript team? There's typically been a consensus against very small packages containing just a single script or piece of code so small that the packaging metadata is going to be as big as (or bigger than!) the package contents. The packaging overhead hits every single user of Debian... -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. st...@einval.com Mature Sporty Personal More Innovation More Adult A Man in Dandism Powered Midship Specialty -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140712110328.gx18...@einval.com
