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Re: How to deal with "assets" packages shadowing real upstream



On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 10:39:26AM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> Quoting Paul Wise (2016-02-29 04:30:02)
> > On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 5:05 AM, Antonio Terceiro wrote:
> >
> >> IMO both in this specific case, and in the general case, the correct 
> >> technical decision is to track the actual upstream as a proper 
> >> Javascript package (supporting both browser usage and NodeJS, if it 
> >> makes sense), and make the convenience packages for other languages 
> >> use and depend on the proper Javascript one.
> 
> Do I read you correctly that in your opinion it _is_ a severe bug to not 
> follow the actual upstream when available.  I would agree with that.

Yes.

> So what next?  Do I simply try assume it is a severe bug even if not 
> written into Policy yet, and see if others agree with that - enough that 
> eventually we can conclude that yes this should probably be written into 
> Policy?

Yes.

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