[Pkg-javascript-devel] Replace 'yui-compressor' with 'uglifyjs'

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Quoting Xavier (2021-01-18 09:24:45)
> Le 18/01/2021 à 09:23, Xavier a écrit :
> > Le 18/01/2021 à 03:02, Marcelo Jorge Vieira a écrit :
> >> Hi team,
> >>
> >> What do you think about replace 'yui-compressor' with 'uglifyjs'.
> >>
> >> The latest yui-compressor was release on May 15, 2013.
> >>
> >> https://github.com/yui/yuicompressor/tags
> >> https://packages.debian.org/sid/yui-compressor
> >>
> >> Comments welcome!
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> > 
> > +1, but we have to find a replacement for CSS files: uglifyjs can't
> > manage them while yui-compressor can.
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > Xavier
> 
> NB2: I prefer to do this after Bullseye release: we entered in freeze
> process since 2021-01-12

We have entered stage 2 of the freeze: Library transitions are frozen.

We should generally slow down on code changes, but we should balance 
that against what code we can defend to maintain in stable for several 
years.

This kind of change seems reasonably for me to do: The existing code 
might be buggy, or a future security release might silently become buggy 
when minified - which I consider worse than a careful switch to a 
maintained compressor (or set of compressors).


 - Jonas

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