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Re: Security concerns with minified javascript code



 ❦ 30 août 2015 11:52 GMT, Bas Wijnen <wijnen@debian.org> :

>> However, this is a readable source code that will accomodate any
>> modification that a end user will deem necessary.
>
> That is not the only reason that we want the user to have source.
> They are not some detached "customer".  When we make changes to
> upstream code, we want to give those changes back to upstream(SC#2).
> I expect that our users (other than ourselves) often want the same
> thing.  Both for us and for them, it is made less likely to get
> changes accepted by upstream if we work on generated files.

This is becoming quite a stretch. At this rate, we will fail to match
SC#2 because we ship previous versions of software and upstream is
unlikely to accept a patch against a non-current version.
-- 
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very thin paper.

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