[pkg-go] Bug#835661: Bug#835661: drop dependency on libjs-handlebars

[Pirate Praveen]

On 2016, ആഗസ്റ്റ് 29 8:40:00 AM IST, "Martín Ferrari" <tincho at debian.org> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>On 28/08/16 08:33, Pirate Praveen wrote:
>
>> libjs-handlebars is missing source (see
>> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=830986 and
>> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=830978). I'm
>planning
>> to drop this package (other option is to keep in non-free) soon.
>> 
>> if you can help keep it in main by generating handlebars.js from its
>> source, that would be another option (but this would require
>packaging
>> grunt or mimicking grunt using other tools in main).
>
>I understand your pain, but possibly this could be reproduced with some
>commands in debian/rules, using browserify? I took a brief look today,
>but did not seem to find all the scripts for building the source
>completely, but surely there is way.. I will try to help with this.

Thanks.

>Having said all this, I think the serious severity is not correct. This
>package is not yet removed from main, so I don't see any reason for
>this
>bug to be RC (yet).

libjs-handlebars cannot be released in main in the current form, so I think the severity is correct. Even if libjs-handlebars is moved to non-free, prometheus will have to be moved to contrib.