[Pkg-javascript-devel] JavaScript policy?

["David Prévot"]

Hi François-Régis,

> I may be wrong but perhaps providing minified files in source tarball
> (which are considered as binary files) is DFSG compliant providing we
> have the sources, but debian policy is to exclude them from sources.

Can you please be specific about what (point of) “debian policy” are you
referring to? The Developers’ Reference, on the contrary, advises to keep
useless but DFSG-compliant files: “A repackaged .orig.tar.{gz,bz2,xz} [
]
should, except where impossible for legal reasons, preserve the entire
building and portablility infrastructure provided by the upstream author.
For example, it is not a sufficient reason for omitting a file that it is
used only when building on MS-DOS. Similarly, a Makefile provided by
upstream should not be omitted even if the first thing your debian/rules
does is to overwrite it by running a configure script.”

https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/best-pkging-practices.html#repackagedorigtargz

Regards

David