Re: jquery debate with upstream
On 03/13/2014 04:57 AM, Jakub Wilk wrote:
> * Philipp Kern <phil@philkern.de>, 2014-03-12, 21:11:
>> I still think it should be acceptable given that it's an open source
>> project, it's clearly versioned from which source it comes and we
>> check by not using the file that no changes have been done to the
>> minification. I guess we could even go one step further and argue that
>> the source for this is in fact in Debian.
>
> That would work only if the embedded copy was the same version as the
> packaged one. And there are lots of jQuery versions in the wild.
>
> In <20120817111437.GA8518@jwilk.net> I suggested making a package that
> would bundle all the needed sources, but my proposal wasn't met with
> enthusiasm.
I think it's a good idea, however, instead of packaging all version
possible, would it be possible to identify which API is incompatible and
package just as much as needed only?
Thomas
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