[Pkg-bazaar-maint] Pushed loggerhead changes (1.18-1), requesting sponsored upload

[Max Bowsher]

On 18/11/10 09:28, Roland Mas wrote:
> Max Bowsher, 2010-11-17 23:22:21 +0000 :
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've pushed some changes to the loggerhead/unstable branch, please could
>> a DD consider sponsoring the upload?:
> 
>   I would, were it not for the latest commit:
> 
> [...]
> 
>>   Remove remnants of patching to use the system YUI, which actually
>>   broke the use of YUI entirely. The Debian archive currently only
>>   contains YUI 2, but loggerhead uses YUI 3. Therefore, embed YUI 3 as
>>   loggerhead upstream does.
> 
>   The proper solution is to upload YUI 3 to Debian.  You may need to do
> it in a separate package rather than replacing YUI 2 altogether, but I'm
> not the one with a say in the matter.  Please get in touch with the
> Debian Javascript maintainers (list at
> <pkg-javascript-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org>) to get their opinion.  I
> can sponsor an upload for YUI 3 if needed, and then (or at the same
> time) I'll gladly sponsor a new Loggerhead using the system YUI.

The problem is, I don't currently have the background knowledge of
Javascript packaging, nor the time currently to dig into learning it,
nor the ongoing involvement to be a responsible provider of updates for
it outside the context of what loggerhead upstream does.

Why can't we embed the dependency until such time as someone packages
YUI 3 independently?

The loggerhead package currently in Debian is fairly badly broken
because all of its Javascript features are missing. I think that's a
strictly worse situation than having no loggerhead package in Debian at all.

Max.


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