[Fedora-packaging] nodejs-ws - should I change it to a noarch

Parag N(पराग़) panemade at gmail.com
Wed Feb 4 09:09:11 UTC 2015


Hi,

On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 2:17 PM, Stephen Gallagher <sgallagh at redhat.com> wrote:
> (Sorry for top-post)
> I'm forwarding this to the packaging list for input on the
> arch-to-noarch question.
>
>
> On Tue, 2015-02-03 at 10:42 -0600, Troy Dawson wrote:
>> Hi All,
>> I was going through, updating my nodejs package for rawhide (f22) when I
>> found the nodejs-ws went from binary to pure javascript with version 0.7.1.
>>
>> So, my question is this.  Do I continue to leave it as an arch, so I
>> don't break thing, so should I go to noarch.
>>
>> Switching from an arch to a noarch has bitten me in the past when people
>> do updates.  I don't know if that is still the case.
>>
>> What are people's thoughts.  Should I switch it to a noarch?
>> I'm not planning on backporting this to older distributions if that
>> matters in the decision.
>>

I remember the relevant ticket https://fedorahosted.org/fpc/ticket/117.

Regards,
Parag


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