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

[Stephen Gallagher]

(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.
> 
> Thanks
> Troy Dawson
> 
> p.s. Side note - This update also requires nodejs-ultron, if anyone
> wants to do a review request.
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1188763
> 
> p.p.s. If there is already a fedora page explaining arch to noarch
> policies, that would be great.  Feel free to point me to it.
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