[Pkg-javascript-devel] Bug#731095: Please consider switching tablesorter to alternate upstream

[Jerome Charaoui]

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Le 2014-02-02 17:09, Iustin Pop a écrit :
> On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 08:54:17PM -0500, Jerome Charaoui wrote:
>> Several packages in Debian depend on libjs-jquery-tablesorter.
>> Are you confident that switching to a fork wouldn't negatively
>> impact these packages?
> 
> I'm definitely not confident of this, as I'm not familiar with the 
> javascript packaging/versioning/upgrades policy. Hence why I asked
> the maintainer to _investigate_ this situation, as they have
> better knowledge than me on this front, not to simply switch over.

I was asking in regards to the tablesorter plugin itself, not Debian
policies, in the hope that you may be familiar with the differences
between the two. Is the fork a drop-in replacement for the original
plugin? Did it introduce incompatible changes, such as removing
methods or properties? Etc.

Thanks,

 -- Jerome


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