Hi, I keep discussing the same issues caused by minified JS files (mostly JQuery) in their source tarballs over and over. Could maybe those who care deeply about this write a concise wiki page with all that upstream needs to know about our expectations, so that I can point them to it? That page should also point out the least effort required to satisfy us (which, I believe, is downloading the corresponding source and dumping it in the tarball). Also, am I too pragmatic in suggesting that we should accept non-source files in tarballs if they are legally distributed and not used during the build (especially not included in the binary packages)? If we had this I would neither have to bug upstream about their convenience copies nor mess with tarball repackaging (which I consider ugly, a cludge, and to be avoided if possible) and simply make sure in the packaging that I use libjs-jquery instead of the included file. Greetings, Joachim -- Joachim "nomeata" Breitner Debian Developer nomeata@debian.org | ICQ# 74513189 | GPG-Keyid: 4743206C JID: nomeata@joachim-breitner.de | http://people.debian.org/~nomeata
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