[Pkg-javascript-devel] Bug#679665: Bug#679665: Bug#679665: jquery: build-deps not satisfiable in wheezy

[Marcelo Jorge Vieira]

Hi Jonas,

On Fri, 2012-07-06 at 15:13 +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> On 12-07-05 at 11:05pm, Mehdi Dogguy wrote:
> > On 05/07/12 22:57, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> > >If we skip installing minified files, then yes it breaks. If we skip
> > >minifying but still install - i.e. install files that are 0% minified
> > >- then only download times should be affected.
> > 
> > I think that this is the best option we have at this stage. In any case,
> > it's your call as a maintainer to choose which solution you want to
> > implement.
> > 
> > Switching to slimit might be a sexy option but also falls in the
> > "changing the compressor" category, imho.
> 
> How about this:
> 
> Now:
> 
>  1) Skip generating and installing any minified files at build time.
>  2) Try minify and fallback to copy in postinst script:
> 
>     for if in $files-to-be-minified; do
>       of="$(basename "$if" .js).min.js"
>       javascript-minifier -o "$of" "$if" | cp -a "$if" "$of"
>     done
> 
>  3) Remove minified/copied files in "remove" state of postrm script:
> 
>     for if in $files-to-be-minified; do
>       of="$(basename "$if" .js).min.js"
>       rm -f "$of"
>     done
> 
> (javascript-minifier should use same basic syntax as both yui-compressor 
> and uglifyjs share today.)
> 
> Official result now:
> 
>   * Javascript files will not be minified.


This way all JS packages will depends on javascript-minifier and for me
it is not a good idea, because JS packages usually have only some kB of
size and do not depend on java or nodejs to run.


> Unofficial possibility now:
> 
>   * Add /usr/local/bin/javascript-minifier symlink to yui-compressor
>   * Add /usr/local/bin/javascript-minifier custom compressor script 
> 
> Official possibility later (perhaps even at a stable point release):
> 
>   * Add javascript-minifier package with debconf handling of 
>     /etc/alternatives symlinking of /usr/bin/javascript-minifier and 
>     perhaps also /usr/sbin/update-javascript-minifications.

It sounds good for me.


Cheers,

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Marcelo Jorge Vieira
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