Re: which JavaScript dependencies really need a separate package?
On 14526 March 1977, Daniel Pocock wrote:
> - For those JavaScript libs that have complicated build systems that are
> not (yet) supported on Debian, is it reasonable for a package like
> homer-ui to simply include the intermediate product of the build, just
> before it is minified, into the Debian source package? This may not be
> the "preferred form of modification", but it is not difficult to make
> modifications to it.
Thats simple to answer by reading
https://lists.debian.org/debian-ctte/2016/10/msg00066.html
What you proposed is not source (first point), so has no place in main.
You may be able to follow the second point.
> - The FTP masters have also expressed concern about the standalone
> packaging of very small[3] JavaScript dependencies. Is that still the
> same for stretch and beyond?
Small packages are bad. Sometimes they may make sense, sometimes another
environment sucks really bad and the best way for us is to deal with it.
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bye, Joerg
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