[Pkg-javascript-devel] Bug#677619: Bug#677619: libjs-jquery-ui: Please provide pristine copy of upstream minified files too
Marcelo Jorge Vieira
metal at debian.org
Fri Jun 15 23:29:31 UTC 2012
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
xmpp:metal at jabber-br.org
http://metaldot.alucinados.com
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