From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ricardo Wurmus Subject: Re: import libjs-*.deb from Debian? (was Re: NPM importer) Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2018 04:23:23 +0100 Message-ID: <87bm672qqc.fsf@elephly.net> References: <70F182DB-C157-4763-A4C6-89985545661C@lepiller.eu> <0e5afb2d-c182-6be4-ba2d-6a6f7dd45ac9@riseup.net> <1150DF84-4952-4401-A8D0-3E05A4D0EB74@lepiller.eu> <23f36a0d-a5ef-5457-1d8e-61fbebda91c4@riseup.net> <87zhu3b41w.fsf@gnu.org> <87va4qxf8e.fsf@posteo.net> <62a1a976-ed2f-a68d-0aa8-d6fb6bd46c14@riseup.net> <87k1l5zmxx.fsf@posteo.net> <8736rt1hf7.fsf@roquette.mug.biscuolo.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:49987) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gScxI-0006LY-FQ for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Nov 2018 02:11:17 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gScxC-0004Nr-EO for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Nov 2018 02:11:15 -0500 Received: from sender-of-o52.zoho.com ([135.84.80.217]:21453) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gScxB-0004IU-LT for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Nov 2018 02:11:10 -0500 In-reply-to: <8736rt1hf7.fsf@roquette.mug.biscuolo.net> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Giovanni Biscuolo Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Hi Giovanni, > what about reusing work already done from the Debian JavaScript > Maintainers team [1]? [=E2=80=A6] > should we ignore/deprecate npm packages with licensing issues and work > with the ethically conscious like Debian JavaScript Maintainers? I think this would be a good thing to try. Work on npm can of course still continue, but it could be useful to have a couple of easier JavaScript library packages sooner. Would you like to adapt one or more of the libjs* Debian packages for Guix to see if this is a reasonable way forward? -- Ricardo