[Pkg-mailman-hackers] Bug#924961: [Mailman-Developers] Re: How strict are the dependencies on the django-compressor related backends?

[Christian Ehrhardt]

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> I think this is perfectly fine and I don't see much benefit in combining
> the CSS and JS files at build-time. It would allow to drop the
> django-compressor dependency but with the cost of more heavy build-time
> adjustments that need to be maintained in future.

I agree, the extra gain by this would be minimal at a rather high
maintenance cost.

>
> So I'm happy to now have a solution to drop both node-less and sassc
> from runtime dependencies in the Debian package. Thanks to everyone for
> their input on this topic.

Thank you so much!

I think that also eases the maintenance of a live mailman deployment having
much less complex components installed.

I understand that this won't be for Buster.
Just curious for related Ubuntu planning - are you planning to do an
upload to experimental ahead of time or are you waiting until Buster
is released?

> I added a comment to upstream hyperkitty issue #120 where I proposed to
> do the same in the upstream hyperkitty release process and that way get
> rid of the sassc runtime dependency:
>
> https://gitlab.com/mailman/hyperkitty/issues/120#note_179256370

Great, that will help to keep things in sync.