Bug#748182: lintian: detect minified CSS
Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> writes:
> On Wed, 2014-05-14 at 21:44 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> Why?
> In addition, CSS minifiers can do a lot more than just removing
> whitespace and comments:
> https://yui.github.io/yuicompressor/css.html
None of those transforms other than removing comments lose information so
far as I can tell.
As a package maintainer, I would find this tag extremely irritating, and
would be tempted to simply automate adding overrides of it without further
consideration. To me, it feels like you are taking the desire for source
to an extreme that is going to annoy people using Lintian. I'm always
worried that this would lead to people no longer using Lintian at all
because it's annoying them with unimportant trivia.
I also don't think the definition of preferred form of modification that
you're using here is supported by the rest of the project.
I'm not vetoing this or marking it wontfix because, as far as I'm
concerned, Bastien is now the lead developer and it's really therefore his
call, but I think this will be quite controversial.
If you think I'm wrong, I think it would be good to raise this in
debian-devel and see if you can actually get project consensus about this.
In the long run, we probably need a GR on this whole general topic of
source, since it's clear that different people have *massively* different
understandings of what Debian should be doing in this area.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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