Source: node-sane Maintainer: Debian Javascript Maintainers Uploaders: Xavier Guimard Section: javascript Testsuite: autopkgtest-pkg-nodejs Priority: optional Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 13) , dh-sequence-nodejs , chai , mocha , node-anymatch , node-execa , node-micromatch (>= 3.1.4) , node-minimist , node-rimraf , node-rollup-plugin-babel , node-sinon , node-tmp , rollup Standards-Version: 4.5.1 Vcs-Browser: https://salsa.debian.org/js-team/node-sane Vcs-Git: https://salsa.debian.org/js-team/node-sane.git Homepage: https://github.com/amasad/sane Rules-Requires-Root: no Package: node-sane Architecture: all Depends: ${misc:Depends} , node-anymatch , node-execa , node-micromatch (>= 3.1.4) , node-minimist , nodejs (>= 6) Provides: ${nodejs:Provides} Description: Nodejs fast, small, and reliable file system watcher Sane aims to be fast, small, and reliable file system watcher. It does that by: * By default stays away from fs polling because it's very slow and cpu intensive * Uses `fs.watch` by default and sensibly works around the various issues * Maintains a consistent API across different platforms * Where `fs.watch` is not reliable you have the choice of using the following alternatives: * the facebook watchman library (embedded) * the watchexec library (embedded) * polling