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Bug#497215: lintian: False positives for prototype js warnings



On Sun, 2008-08-31 at 00:51 +0200, Carl Fürstenberg wrote:
> Package: lintian
> Version: 1.24.4
> Severity: important
> 
> the check for embedded prototype javacsript library is prone to many
> false positives, as "prototype" is a pretty common word  in js-space,
> and also that it can be common for JavaScript files, using such library
> to be called libfoo-prototype.js etc...

Could you please provide some examples of packages where this occurs?
I've checked a random sample from
http://lintian.debian.org/tags/embedded-javascript-library.html and they
do all refer to embedded copies of the prototype library.

Adam



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