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Re: Minified javascripts in packages



Quoting Vincent Bernat (2015-04-15 10:49:36)
> ❦ 15 avril 2015 10:10 +0200, Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk> :
>
>>> What I have done so far in my package is to include the concatenated 
>>> but unminified js from the upstream (that would be my upstream's 
>>> upstream) source tarball in debian/missing-sources. During package 
>>> build i use uglifyjs (which is already in Debian) to place minified 
>>> copies where the app I'm building expects them to be.
>>> As mentioned above, what constitutes preferred form of modification 
>>> really is a question of who is doing the modification. Upstream uses 
>>> the un-concatenated files, but personally, I would find it easier to 
>>> modify one big file, at least for something interpreted like 
>>> javascript.
>>
>> What counts is the form preferred by the authors of the code.
> 
> Who says that? We can't just invent new rules.

That is exactly what we can - and do: We invented Debian Policy.

 - Jonas

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