[Pkg-roundcube-maintainers] Bug#978070: Bug#978070: src:roundcube: LESS-generated code installed only compressed, unlike other CSS code

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Quoting Guilhem Moulin (2020-12-25 15:51:01)
> On Fri, 25 Dec 2020 at 14:00:56 +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> > During install, all CSS code gets compressed using yui-compressor, 
> > and then compressed CSS code is generated from LESS code.
> > 
> > As a result, some CSS is installed both uncompressed and compressed, 
> > while some is installed only compressed.
> 
> This is deliberate: we ship the source (LESS or un-minified CSS) and 
> the generated minified CSS.  Also IIRC Roundcube won't prefer the 
> .min.css over the .css in this case, and only load the .css.  Was a 
> while since I looked at this and it might have changed meanwhile, but 
> upstream's installations instructions haven't changed: they still make 
> no mention of .min.css and only talk about generating .css from LESS 
> sources.

Please reconsider:

I would expect upstream instructions to be irrelevant for the serving of 
minified files: That's something a frontend web server can be configured 
to favor instead of on-the-fly compression (or no compression) 
independent of the backend web application.


 - Jonas

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