Re: Minified javascript files
Vincent Bernat <bernat@debian.org> writes:
> On the behalf of the FTP master team, Ansgar Burchardt explained me why
> the dependency to libjs-jquery is not enough to fulfill the "provide the
> sources" part since the source in the archive may not correspond to the
> version included in the upstream tarball.
> I agree with the rationale. However, here is mine:
> 1. The license allows redistribution and modification of the minified
> version without having the sources. Therefore, we are only dealing
> with DFSG here.
> 2. The package does not need the shipped minified version to work
> correctly. We replace it with another minified version from another
> package. This may mean that from the point of view of the
> package, the sources provided in libjs-jquery is "equivalent" to the
> sources that would have been provided with the package.
> 3. Repacking the original tarball just to remove those files is extra
> work.
> I know this is tedious but what others think about this matter?
Could this be solved via the Built-Using field? That indicates that
you're embedding source from another package (in this case, libjs-jquery).
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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