[Debian-med-packaging] lbiquazip transition

[Andreas Tille]

Hi Eric,

On Sun, Aug 17, 2014 at 10:20:20PM +0200, Eric Maeker wrote:
> > Thanks for this.  Did you tried building the package?  It ends up with
> > lintian errors:
> > 
> > E: freemedforms-project source: source-is-missing global_resources/doc/freediams/en/html/lib/exe/js.php.t.typo.js
> > E: freemedforms-project source: source-is-missing global_resources/doc/freediams/fr/html/lib/exe/js.php.t.typo.js
> > E: freemedforms-project source: source-is-missing global_resources/doc/freemedforms/en/html/lib/exe/js.php.t.typo.js
> > E: freemedforms-project source: source-is-missing global_resources/doc/freemedforms/fr/html/lib/exe/js.php.t.typo.js
> 
> This is the first time lintian warns about this.

Yes, lintian became picky about this about 3 monthes ago or so.

> I have checked the
> build process. I'm preparing a small update.
> I'm not sure about how to deal with this errors.

See below.
 
> > We can nit upload with these errors.  The way to gou would be to provide
> > the original (=uncompressed) source in for instance debian/JS and
> > perhaps even install this uncompressed source in the Debian package - I
> > do not think that it makes any difference permformance wise.
> 
> I think that these files are totally unuseful... I hink I'll provide a
> patch to remove any links to these files.

Since you are upstream I'd recommend releasing a new micro version.  Otherwise
as I wrote you can use Files-Excluded in d/copyright.
 
> > Alternatively you can use yui-compressor - you can find an example in
> > gnumed-client package what needs to be done.
> 
> Ok I'll have a look to yui-compressor

There is no need to if the files are unuseful anyway.
 
Kind regards

       Andreas.

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