[Pkg-javascript-devel] node-iconv-lite little questions

[Jérémy Lal]

Le mardi 22 avril 2014 à 22:55 +0200, Jonas Smedegaard a écrit :
> [repost to list]
> 
> Quoting Matthew Pideil (2014-04-22 21:11:16)
> > The generation scripts of these tables are in the upstream release and 
> > will obviously stay in the source package, but i don't know if i have 
> > to rebuild them or not.
> 
> Sounds most sensible to me to rebuild.  Is that a problem?
> 
> 
> > The other problem is that these generation scripts uses file hosted by
> > someone, e.g
> > iconv-lite-0.2.11/generation/generate-big5-table.js:
> >  var cp950_b2u = {host:'moztw.org',path:'/docs/big5/table/cp950-b2u.txt'},
> >     cp950_u2b = {host:'moztw.org',path:'/docs/big5/table/cp950-u2b.txt'},
> >     cp950_moz18_b2u = {host:'moztw.org',path:'/docs/big5/table/moz18-b2u.txt'};
> > 
> > What am i supposed to do whith this ?
> 
> If you mean that the resulting code has a host embedded, then I can 
> imagine no other sensible approach than shipping source and a script to 
> compile it, ask via debconf which host to use, and execute the script 
> from postinst with (optional, defaulting to localhost) debconf response.

Then may i suggest packaging node-iconv instead ? It is not native
javascript, but is certainly not concerned by that kind of issue.

Jérémy.