[DRE-maint] Bug#830987: libjs-handlebars: missing source

[Antonio Terceiro]

On Sat, Jul 23, 2016 at 10:05:18AM +0530, Pirate Praveen wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Jul 2016 15:44:34 +0100 Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar at debian.org> wrote:
> > I briefly looked into the package due to the discussion on -devel@ and
> > the ctte bug. Â The source for the javascript code seems to be missing:
> > it contains generated lexer/parser code, see the upstream source at
> > 
> > Â Â https://github.com/wycats/handlebars.js/blob/v1.3.0/src/handlebars.l
> > 
> > (Just search for "yytext" in handlebars-v1.3.0.js
> > or vendor/assets/javascripts/handlebars.js for ruby-handlebar-assets.)
> > 
> > That seems to be a bit more than just concatenating files.
> > 
> > Ansgar
> > 
> > 
> 
> Ansgar,
> 
> Can I upload it to contrib till ctte decides? I could then reduce the
> severity and let it migrate to testing. A proper fix can take a long
> time and I'd like to see diaspora (which depends on
> ruby-handlebars-assets) in stretch, at least in contrib.

contrib also requires the package to be free software, which implies
having proper source code. what contrib allows beyond what is allowed in
main is requiring non-free software to work.
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