Bug#810000: lintian: False positive source-is-missing for cryptocat/otr.js
On Tue, 05 Jan 2016 20:12:12 +0800 Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 05 Jan 2016 11:20:45 +0000 u wrote:
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> > cryptocat source: source-is-missing chrome/content/data/js/lib/otr.js
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> This is an embedded code copy and should be packaged separately:
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> https://github.com/arlolra/otr
> https://wiki.debian.org/EmbeddedCodeCopies
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> It is also generated from other files:
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> Â This file is concatenated for the browser.
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> The build process is defined here:
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> https://github.com/arlolra/otr/blob/master/gruntfile.js
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> This requires grunt, which isn't yet in Debian.
>
Grunt is going to take a while to package, due to the wider JS ecosystem being generally stupid, over-bloated and self-important far beyond its worth.
https://wiki.debian.org/Javascript/Nodejs/Tasks/grunt
(For example, I very much doubt someone is going to maintain a debian package for a JS npm package whose only purpose and ability is to check if number-is-nan. Also, lol @ the meow -> indent-string -> repeating -> meow cyclic dependency.)
Could we just make an exception at this time for this OTR.js embedded copy? We can add very loud notices to debian/TODO and debian/rules saying that this should be fixed whenever otr.js is packaged properly, hopefully once we convince upstream to move away from Grunt.
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[1] Seriously, WHO THE FUCK WRITES THIS SHIT???
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