[Pkg-javascript-devel] Bug#873016: Bug#873016: node-lodash-packages: not preferred form for source: Should be built from node-lodash

[Ivo De Decker]

Hi,

On Wed, Aug 23, 2017 at 11:41:28PM +0530, Pirate Praveen wrote:
> On ബുധന്‍ 23 ആഗസ്റ്റ് 2017 11:33 വൈകു, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> > Package: node-lodash-packages
> > Severity: serious
> > Justification: Policy 2.1
> 
> I do not think the root issue is serious, but only important.
> 
> > The source package node-lodash-packages does not contain the source form
> > preferred for editing by upstream.  Instead, upstream documents how the
> > contents of that code is generated from the sources included in Debian
> > in the source package node-lodash.
> 
> Adding a build dependency on node-lodash would be enough for the policy
> requirement.

No it wouldn't. You need to actually generate the code instead of shipping the
pregenerated code from upstream. Not doing that is a serious bug. If you think
this is easy to fix, please do so. If not, this package should be removed
from testing.

Thanks,

Ivo