[pkg-php-pear] Remaining packages looking for sponsorship

[James Valleroy]

On 9/18/23 3:55 AM, Fab Stz wrote:
> Hmm, I thought the upstream tarball should remain untouched as much as
> possible. So I added the missing-sources to silence the lintian errors.
> 
> Also, this way the origtar is still usable if someone else gets it for other
> purposes than for Debian. If I removed the js files, it would make it somehow
> broken because they would be missing and the webapp wouldn't work anymore.
> 
> I don't really know how to solve all these constraints.
> 
> IIRC there are many other packages in the archive (phpmyadmin is one of those)
> that ship minified js files and have the source-is-missing error. See:
> https://lintian.debian.org/tags/source-is-missing. So I'm not sure this error
> is actually a blocker. Also, this file, which lists the autorejects, doesn't
> list source-is-missing error as problematic:
> https://ftp-master.debian.org/static/lintian.tags
> 
> On the phpmyadmin side, they use the following approach: they rebuild the
> minified js from the files they put in missing-sources or link to the ones
> provided by libjs-* but keep the original js in origtar.
> 
> I believe my approach is similar to theirs.

Ok, we can try uploading it like this.

Could you look into the ITP bug though? 1040215 was closed, because there is also an RFP bug at 1012149.
I think you should set yourself as the owner of 1012149, and retitle it from RFP to ITP.
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