[Pkg-javascript-devel] Uploading Rainloop

[Yadd]

On 08/12/2021 11:47, Daniel Ring wrote:
> On 12/8/2021 1:38 AM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
>> If older package releases embedded the full source for Modernizr then I
>> agree that it should be acceptable (even if not ideal), but if only
>> bundling a generated build of Modernizr then it is a severe violation of
>> Debian Copyright and must be corrected.
>>
>> Debian provides a package libjs-modernizr with _some_ Modernizr build.
>>
>> Since Modernizr is mostly about providing fallbacks for older browsers,
>> you might consider using the generic build and documenting in the
>> package README.Debian which fallbacks are skipped and will need fetching
>> which custom-profile build of Modernizr for which ancient browsers.
> 
> The embedded Modernizr is source-only (though not a complete copy of the 
> source, it only includes a few feature tests). The Debian version 
> doesn't have any of the feature tests in the embedded version.
> 
> However, we're in luck; I checked which tests Rainloop was using and 
> discovered that it doesn't use the library at all anymore, so I removed 
> it. Looks like upstream just forgot to remove their vendored copy.
> 
> With that, the only bundled libraries remaining in Rainloop are 
> source-only copies not already packaged in Debian.

Except bootstrap (old 2.x version)