Re: Minified javascript files
Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> writes:
> 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).
Oh, no, wait, never mind, that's only for binary packages, and the problem
you have is with the source package containing sources that are not in the
preferred form for modification. Yeah, I don't think there's a good
solution for that.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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