❦ 28 août 2015 10:29 +0200, Samuel Thibault <sthibault@debian.org> :
>> What will happen is that maintainers will fallback to the second less
>> horrible solution and cripple the package (by using an older version of
>> the JS lib for example) to allow it to stay in main.
>
> Why would they want to stay in main?
[...]
> I had the same issue with loadlin: it could only be built on MS-DOS with
> the proprietary tasm, and thus got #356055. I thus extended the free
> yasm to recognized the tasm syntax, and patched loadlin a bit to remove
> some extensions which were hard to implement in yasm but easy to replace
> in loadlin.
>
> Then it could stay in main.
Here is why.
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