[Pkg-javascript-devel] JS policy: repackaging upstream tarball when minified js files are present (was: Call for review: should.js packages)

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Quoting Emilien Klein (2014-05-05 20:57:39)
> 2014-05-05 18:59 GMT+02:00 Jonas Smedegaard <dr at jones.dk>:
>> Quoting Emilien Klein (2014-05-05 12:16:25)
>>> 2014-05-05 11:07 GMT+02:00 Jonas Smedegaard <dr at jones.dk>:
>>
>> [skipping parts on who said what: lacks consensus]
>>
>>>> I see no need for this team to have a policy more strict than 
>>>> Debian generally regarding tarball repackaging.
>>>
>>> It's not about being more strict.
>>> It's about explicitly mentioning a requirement that is not clear to 
>>> a number of our co-packagers.
>>
>> Sorry, but I can only read it as you contradicting yourself above...
>
> The policy of removing upstream-provided minified files comes from the 
> interpretation of DFSG §2.
> So stating this policy on our policy page is not being stricter than 
> Debian in general, just being clear on the workflow that packages 
> maintained by the team must follow.

As recent discussions (not so much here but) at debian-devel at d.o. have 
shown, there is more than one interpretation of DFSG §2.

So stating in a policy for this team how team members "must" interpret 
Debian Policy is indeed more strict than Debian generally.

I dearly appreciate your efforts trying to get this clarified, but 
believe Policy should be defined in Debian generally, not here 
specifically.

I prefer that for this team we do not dictate, only recommend best 
practices.


> Or do we really want to have this debate started again for each new 
> package asking the team to be reviewed?

I believe we need not have same debate for each new package, if we 
document what we (or most of us) find to be best practices.


 - Jonas

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