[Pkg-javascript-devel] Packaging jPlayer

[Marcelo Jorge Vieira]

Hi Pau,

On Tue, 2012-05-01 at 11:51 +0200, Pau Garcia i Quiles wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm the maintainer of Wt (  http://packages.debian.org/sid/witty  ).
> Since version 3.1.11, Wt uses jPlayer to implement the WVideo and
> WAudio classes. Today I discovered SwfTools provides an AS3 compiler
> (previously I though only Flex would work, which was a problem because
> Flex is not available on Debian.
> 
> Now I am considering packaging jPlayer, which is itself a jQuery
> plugin. A few questions:
> 
> - Is there a "Debian Guidelines for JavaScript packagers" document?
> 
> - Many jQuery plugins have been combined into the jquery-goodies,
> although the have different upstreams. Should I add jPlayer to the
> jquery-goodies package or package it on itself (it has a JavaScript
> part and a Flash part) ? (I'd rather go for the latter unless policy
> is the former)

Many jQuery plugins has small/single JavaScript file, so for not to
create a single package for each small JavaScript file, I've created
the plugin collection called: jquery-goodies.

As jPlayer is not a small/single JavaScript file, you should package
it separately.


Cheers,

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Marcelo Jorge Vieira
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