[Pkg-javascript-devel] Uploading Rainloop

Yadd yadd at debian.org
Wed Dec 8 13:02:26 GMT 2021


On 08/12/2021 12:06, Yadd wrote:
> 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)

I updated some things, please see my changes



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