[Pkg-javascript-devel] Bug#1005872: Bug#1005872: node-istanbul: Remove libjs-prettify dependency

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Quoting Vignesh Raman (2022-02-16 14:34:17)
> prettify.js is unmaintanined https://github.com/googlearchive/code-prettify.
> node-istanbul has vendored copy of prettify.js and it can that instead of
> prettify.js,
> 
> Attached is a patch to remove dependency on libjs-prettify and to use
> the vendor provided prettify.js. Please let me know
> you opinion on this. Thanks.

Please do *not* hide problems like that.

If package src:prettify.js is broken and upstream is dead, then it is 
wrong to move to embedded snapshots, because that does not solve the 
issue of code being unmaintained, only hides it!

Instead, please patch package src:prettify.js as needed.

Or if package src:prettify.js is unmaintainable even with patches, then 
it is an indication that code should be *avoided* in Debian, which means 
that instead reverse dependencies of package src:prettify.js should be 
patches to *not* use prettify.js at all.

Obviously, if package src:prettify.js works fine without patches, then 
it is not a problem that upstream is dead and there is no reason to 
embed nor to patch anything.


 - Jonas

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