On Friday, September 02 2016, Ben Finney wrote: > On 02-Sep-2016, Sergio Durigan Junior wrote: >> On Friday, September 02 2016, Alexander Wirt wrote: >> >> > On Thu, 01 Sep 2016, Sergio Durigan Junior wrote: >> >> Anyway, I talked to Alexandre Viau (aviau) about this and he >> >> assured me that I could bundle the non-minified versions of JS >> >> libraries needed by the package without problems, because >> >> ftp-master is OK with this. >> > Yeah, thats no problem as long as the source (non-monified) is >> > available. > > I think Alexander's statement is only true for what will satisfy legal > requirements for FTP master. > > For satisfying Debian Policy, though, that is not sufficient. Rather: > > 4.13. Convenience copies of code > > […] > If the included code is already in the Debian archive in the form > of a library, the Debian packaging should ensure that binary > packages reference the libraries already in Debian and the > convenience copy is not used. If the included code is not already > in Debian, it should be packaged separately as a prerequisite if > possible. > > On that basis I am requesting you to report RFPs for each of the > bundled libraries, to package them as Policy §4.13 says. I am filing the RFP's now. Just to make things clear, I am totally in favour of packaging everything we can. To me, the "if possible" part of the paragraph you posted is subjective and leaves things open for interpretation. The real problem with the JS libs that are missing on Debian is their dependency on Grunt. To be fair, I recently packaged selectize.js (which also depends on Grunt), and I spent a big time creating a replacement for it using only GNU tools available on Debian, but I don't feel like doing that for every other library. Anyway, I just wanted to explain better why I think packaging the missing JS libraries is going to be a huge hassle. Thanks, -- Sergio GPG key ID: 237A 54B1 0287 28BF 00EF 31F4 D0EB 7628 65FC 5E36 Please send encrypted e-mail if possible http://sergiodj.net/
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