On Wed, 2016-01-06 at 14:02 +0100, Ximin Luo wrote: > 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. I spoke to someone on IRC who was working on it the other day, it sounded like they were close, just packaging another 1KB JS file. > (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.) Uh, #797455 > 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. I don't think the DFSG has exceptions :) > [1] Seriously, WHO THE FUCK WRITES THIS SHIT??? It is a different world from a different age, completely disconnected with the world of Linux distros. Unfortunately those people are the new Open Source ecosystem and abhor the distros and how we do things. > Also, in terms of lintian and this bug report, *it is still a bug in > lintian*. It would still give a false positive even if otr.js is > packaged correctly. This is also triggered by some other JS stuff I > have been packaging. Agreed, but it is a bit much to expect lintian to be false-positive free. > I would suggest that lintian be amended, so that if the file is >20- > 50 lines, and there are only 1-2 of these "long lines", then no > error/warning is emitted. IIRC it already has been toned down. -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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