[Pkg-javascript-devel] Bug#677619: Bug#677619: libjs-jquery-ui: Please provide pristine copy of upstream minified files too

[Marcelo Jorge Vieira]

On Fri, 2012-06-15 at 14:20 +0200, Raphaël Hertzog wrote:
> Package: libjs-jquery-ui
> Version: 1.8.ooops.21+dfsg-1
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> It would be nice if you could also provide the various *.min.js files that
> upstream does provide.
> 
> I understand that you provide jquery.ui.min.js which includes everything
> but there are plenty of applications which embed a subset of the various
> *.min.js files (in my case Wordpress) and it would be nice if we could
> replace them with a symlink.
> 
> Ideally you would even provide pristine copy of those files so that we can
> more easily identify when they are really the same files or not (this
> means that you should not minify them during build unless you have changed
> the original file as well). This is particularly interesting so that
> people can use the "deduplicate" command of dh-linktree instead
> of blindly replacing the files by symlinks.
> 
> Thank you for considering it!

I will minify files from source (using uglify) instead of shipping
upstream version, because it could be considered as a policy violation. 


Cheers,

-- 
Marcelo Jorge Vieira
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