Re: jquery debate with upstrea
On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 3:29 AM, Philipp Kern <pkern@debian.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> On 2014-03-10 18:27, Joachim Breitner wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>
>
> as long as the code in question is not under a license that requires the
> full, non-minified source to be reproduced and if the copyright notices and
> license terms as potentially required by the license are present, I don't
> see why not. But I guess the latter is not commonly happening?
>
> Kind regards
> Philipp Kern
>
>
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