debhelper supports limiting a sequence to arch-independent packages, but
when trying to do that with dh-sequence leads to this error message:

dh: warning: The add-on nodejs relies on a feature (add_command_options) (possibly indirectly), which is not supported for conditional debhelper sequence add-ons.
dh: warning: Hint: You may have to move the build-dependency for dh-sequence-nodejs to Build-Depends to avoid this error assuming it is possible to use the sequence unconditionally.
dh: error: unable to load addon nodejs: dh: error: add_command_options is not supported for conditional dh sequence add-ons.

 - Jonas
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Xavier:

Hi,

I believe you have misunderstood the request.  The "dh-sequence-nodejs"
works fine when put in Build-Depends.

What Jonas is requesting is that dh-sequence-nodejs can moved to
Build-Depends-Indep - this requires that the add-on supports the more
restricted "conditional add-on" API from dh.  However, not all add-ons
can support this functionality because of the restricted API.

From a quick glance, I doubt that the nodejs sequence can support it at
all.  As an example, the moment you need to do anything in the "clean"
sequence, then it is impossible (as Build-Depends-Indep is not satisfied
during clean, so the add-on must not modify the clean sequence at all).

My recommendation is to tag the bug wontfix for now.

~Niels

Tagged as "wontfix" following Niels's recommendation

Le 20/12/2020 à 09:51, Niels Thykier a écrit :