[Pkg-javascript-devel] JavaScript policy?

[François-Régis]

Hi David,

Le 25/03/2014 01:47, "David Prévot" a écrit :
> 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

As I've said I may be wrong and I still may be wrong. I just try to
build on Marcelo POV [1]. He asked to remove minified files so I say
"perhaps [...] debian policy is to exclude them from sources".

I should have said "A pkg-javascript policy could be we don't embed
minified files into orig tarball"

[1]
http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-javascript-devel/2014-March/007176.html

Cheers,

-- 
François-Régis