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Re: Minified javascripts in packages



 ❦ 15 avril 2015 11:07 +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.

Please, give a source. The Debian Policy doesn't say that what counts is
the form preferred by the authors of the code.
-- 
The better part of valor is discretion.
		-- William Shakespeare, "Henry IV"

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