[Pkg-javascript-devel] Bootstrap(CSS/JS) during package build

[Thorsten Glaser]

Hi,

I’ve got a FusionForge derivate properly packaged as Debian
source package, and would like to keep that. (It’s used inhouse
but publicly available.) Now, we are “restyling” it using the
“Bootstrap” CSS/JS stuff, whose version 3.1 will use the MIT
licence (instead of Apache v2) and thus be licence-compatible,
but I need to have this usable for packaging somehow.

My idea is to have the bootstrap source code somewhere (I can
bundle that in my package) and then generate the .css and .js
during debian/rules build time. (Especially as we will likely
have to customise it.) For that, I’ll need the appropriate
build-dependencies (Recess, less.js, etc.) in Debian proper.
I see that less.js is already packaged, but Recess isn’t, and
there may be other dependencies (it’s not easy to figure out
what exactly is needed since bootstrap upstream seems to be
into the “just use our precompiled stuff from CDN” and “just
install it from the internet with bower” mantra ☹ whereas I’m
into proper Debian packaging for the stuff at work.

Is there any interest in getting this packaged, and/or any
advice you can already give me?

On a related matter, my cow-orker says “I’ve dropped the
embedded jQuery version from my tree now and switched back
to your antiquated Debian version”; can jQuery be updated
in sid? (I’ll backport to wheezy myself, no problem.)

Thanks in advance,
//mirabilos
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