Re: Non-source Javascript files in upstream source
Le jeudi 08 mai 2014 à 00:57 +0200, Vincent Bernat a écrit :
> ❦ 7 mai 2014 17:41 CEST, The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> :
>
> > Specifically, it violates my (pre-this-thread) expectation of what it is
> > that I get from 'apt-get source'. Prior to reading this thread, it would
> > never have occurred to me to think that something obtained that way
> > might not be actually part of the source (or source-documentation, et
> > cetera) of the binary package; I would have looked at the source, seen
> > the minified JS file, and expected that it would be used during the
> > build or in the final "binary". If I needed to modify it, or to trace
> > code flow through it for debugging purposes, I could have spent a fair
> > amount of time and effort unnecessarily. I don't think I'm likely to be
> > alone in this.
>
> This is to be compared with the time spent by the maintainer to deal
> with this problem by adding files or removing files from the source
> package without affecting the resulting binary package. This may keep
> some contributors away from Debian.
>
> When I get some time to work on my packages and I see this:
> http://lintian.debian.org/maintainer/pkg-roundcube-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org.html#roundcube
>
> Well, I say "Let's do something else, I'll have another look later".
The situation for roundcube is not that bad... i'm offering to help (in
the pkg-roundcube repository) ?
Jérémy.
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