Re: mathjaxr

[Andreas Tille <andreas@an3as.eu>]

On Fri, Nov 27, 2020 at 08:19:44AM -0600, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> 
> I started to package mathjaxr as package rgl will now need it. Unfortunately
> it includes a lot of Javascript as well as fonts and we have the usual
> problem of ftp-master wanting sources (see below)
> 
> Would anybody here have time, experience and patience to work through this
> and update mathjaxr? I am a little short on two to three of these.
> 
> I have a basic package at
>   https://salsa.debian.org/edd/r-cran-mathjaxr
> and I now see that a prior attempt was at
>   https://salsa.debian.org/r-pkg-team/r-cran-mathjaxr
> (as I had only checked packages.debian.org, my bad).

Yep, I also started a packaging attempt since some other package needs
this new dependency.  If I would have managed to fight through all these
JS I would have uploaded.  Unfortunately there was no spare time slot
and my Debian time in the next 10 days will be drastically reduced due
to real life issues.  You will not see much activity from me in R-pkg
team in this time.
 
> The email I got from Joerg is below. The matter is becoming somewhat urgent
> as rgl now build-depends on mathjaxr, and rgl itself is used in a few other
> packages.

Please decide what repository should be used for the packaging.  I think
you have permissions to https://salsa.debian.org/r-pkg-team.  If you
want to stick to .../edd I'd rather remove the other repository to avoid
confusion.
 
Kind regards

       Andreas.

 
> Reply from ftp-masters:
> 
>   Hi Maintainer,
> 
>   rejected, sorry. The javascript files in the subdirs of
>   doc\mathjax\es5\ all look pretty minified and not the way anyone would
>   edit them in, so not source to ship. Additionally they appear to have
>   a different license too, not mentioned in your copyright file.
> 
>   Also, do you really need to ship them, there is a libjs-mathjax
>   package existing already.
> 
>   Same set of questions for the woff files and the existing package
>   there.
> 
>   --
>   bye Joerg
> 
> 
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