Bug#494577: Please add exemptions for "embedded-javascript-library" tag.

["Adam D. Barratt" <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk>]

tags 494577 + pending
thanks

Hi,

On Sun, 2008-08-10 at 19:58 +0100, Chris Lamb wrote:
> (My own fault, but) I think lintian should have exemptions for package/file
> pairs in the "embedded-javascript-library" tag.
> 
> The lack of this feature is currently causing ~10 false positives where the
> "official" libraries that are providing the libraries are being tagged.
> 
> A patch is attached, but I'm not sure if it accomodates files that have a
> version suffix, like "prototype-1.6.0.2.js".

Thanks for the patch. As discussed on IRC, it appears that we were both
writing patches for this at the same time. :-/

Chris confirmed that he was okay with using my patch instead of his as,
whilst "uglier", it will handle newer versions of the prototype library.

Adam