debian nodejs package provides nodejs:any

[kapouer]

Hi,

for some multiarch-support reason, debian (bookworm/12 and following releases) automatically adds
Provides: nodejs:any
to its binary nodejs package.

This cannot be removed (without breaking multiarch support, i guess),
and is a major problem when a user wants to install nodejs from a debian nodesource repository:
all other packages depending on "nodejs:any" must be removed.

Would it be possible to add Provides: nodejs:any in the nodejs package generated by nodesource ?

Thanks for considering, it would ease the pain.

[guimard]

You just have to add

Multi-Arch: allowed

in debian/control, section "Package: node" (or "Package: nodejs")

[LDVSOFT]

Hi! Any progress here on this?

[kapouer]

Hi, any chance to see this fixed one day ?
It's somewhat benign and will allow users to switch back and forth between debian and nodesource packages.

[erkinalp]

related to #1820