[Pkg-roundcube-maintainers] Bug#785333: Bug#785333: broken contextmenu due to jquery

[Stefan Hornburg (Racke)]

On 06/04/2015 09:16 AM, Sandro Knauß wrote:
> Hey,
> 
> Keep in mind, that Debian only say, that there must be the source code 
> available at building time. For javascript this means, that an unminified 
> version should be availabe in the source. Javascript is minified by building 
> the package, because this makes sense in termes of performance.
> 
> The point about including 3rd party source code to an project has different 
> issuess. One is security. If someone finds a security issue in jquery, than 
> this will lead in a update for jquery. But who takes care, that the internal 
> copy of jquery is updated? Also duplication work. Looking at copyright, 
> stripping out non DFSG parts ( see the +dfsg in the jquery name), ...
> 
>> Wordpress manages an embed tinymce
> 
> well yes it is possible to embend code, but for example because wordpress 
> takes "the easy path", jquery and tinymce are that old. So if they would use 
> an internal one, than we would have recent versions of these, and you woud not 
> have to complain :)
> 

It would be good though to supply different versions of jquery, so it matches
the requirements of the various packages depending on it.

Minifying during package building shouldn't really an issue.

Regards
         Racke

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