[Pkg-javascript-devel] node-katex_0.10.2+dfsg-2_amd64.changes REJECTED

Pirate Praveen praveen at onenetbeyond.org
Wed Jun 24 21:11:38 BST 2020



On Tue, Jun 23, 2020 at 2:40 pm, Sean Whitton 
<spwhitton at spwhitton.name> wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On Tue 23 Jun 2020 at 01:47AM +02, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> 
>>  Quoting Sean Whitton (2020-06-22 23:26:37)
>>>  Would someone want to use libjs-katex without nodejs installed?
>> 
>>  Yes: Pandoc can produce output which uses katex rendered with the
>>  Javascript interpreter of web browsers, not on OS-bound Javascript
>>  rendering like Node.js.
>> 
>>  Currently Pandoc suggests node-katex, but pulling in Node.js is 
>> unneeded
>>  baggage.  For some users it may even be bad: Node.js may not be 
>> covered
>>  by security support for as long as Firefox (due to the extraordinary
>>  treatment of Firefox in stable Debian).
> 
> Thanks.  I think at this point we probably need to wait to hear from
> Bastian, who processed the REJECT.  In the meantime, it would be good 
> to
> reupload with the reason for the binary package split documented, as
> previously described.

I have added a debian/README.Debian, mentioned this in the changelog 
and uploaded again.

> --
> Sean Whitton





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