[Pkg-javascript-devel] Bug#680276: jquery: please add className function back

[Jakub Wilk]

Source: jquery
Version: 1.4.2-2
Severity: wishlist
Tags: squeeze patch

In squeeze, Sphinx (documentation generator, which is popular in Python 
world) generates JavaScript code that uses the className function, which 
was removed in jQuery 1.4.

This is of course a bug in Sphinx that should be fixed (see #629329). 
However, the buggy code ended up in (literally) dozens of packages, many 
of them being arch:all. Rebuilding them all would be quite painful.

Taking this into account, would you consider patching jQuery in squeeze 
to add the function back? Patch is available here:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?msg=15;filename=jquery-628642.diff;att=1;bug=629329

Thanks for considering. Still, if you didn't want to implement such 
change, that would be fully understandable. :)

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Jakub Wilk