[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#798900: lintian: false positive: source-is-missing for non-minified JS files

[Sascha Steinbiss]

Hi Paul,

>> Looks like the JQuery DataTables libraries included are flagged as minified
>> without source on the basis that they have lines longer than 1024 characters:
>> P: aegean source: source-contains-prebuilt-javascript-object data/share/vendor/jquery.dataTables.js line length is 1397 characters (>1024)
>> E: aegean source: source-is-missing data/share/vendor/jquery.dataTables.js
>> [...]
> 
> lintian is absolutely correct to flag this file, it is generated from a
> bunch of other JavaScript files using Bash, PHP 5.4+, JSHint 2.1+ and
> the Closure compiler, at least according to the upstream git repos:
> 
> https://github.com/DataTables/DataTablesSrc/
> https://github.com/DataTables/DataTables/

Wow, I see (and can’t help but feel a slight WTF about this building setup). Thanks for pointing this out. I guess the cleanest way to proceed here would be to properly package DataTables built from source as a dependency for aegean. Then it wouldn't need to be included with the aegean source anymore, as it is already the case with its other JS dependencies. I’ll put this on my agenda.

> I'm not sure what the correct heuristics to use are but in the
> jquery.dataTables.js case the existing ones produced the right result.

OK. Still, I feel that line length probably is a bit weak as evidence.

Cheers,
Sascha
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