On 07/14/2017 12:57 PM, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
Fair point.
3. Once a new nodejs package providing /usr/bin/node is in the
archive, other packages in the archive are free to depend on the
nodejs package and use /usr/bin/node .
That should probably be a versioned Depends, at least until a stable release includes /usr/bin/node in nodejs. Otherwise upgrades may break.
OTOH, is this paragraph (or 2, for that matter) really needed? They're just restating (somewhat imperfectly) Policy and/or normal practice in Debian, which presumably come back into effect anyway once the 2012-07-12 decision is repealed.