[DRE-maint] Bug#1121194: redmine: in small web-browser window home page buttons don't work

[Jörg-Volker Peetz]

Hi Soren,

thank you very much for taking care.

Soren Stoutner wrote on 26/11/2025 03:26:
> Jörg,
> 
> On Saturday, November 22, 2025 8:07:38 AM Mountain Standard Time Jörg-Volker
> Peetz wrote:
>> with this version (and already with 6.0.6+ds-3) the buttons ("Jump to a
>> project" and the Hamburger button) on the home page of redmine in a
>> smaller browser window ceased to work. It happens, when the window
>> becomes so small that only a blue colored header with "v Jump to a
>> project..." at the left and a Hamburger button on the right side
>> appears. On the white background below the header appears "Home" at the
>> top left and "Powered by Redmine ..." at the bottom.
>> Any idea why the buttons don't work anymore?
> 
> Thanks for catching this.  Indeed, I was too aggressive in removing libjs-
> jquery in the 6.0.6+ds-3 release, which causes this to fail on small screens,
> like cell phones.  I will be releasing 6.0.6+ds-5 shortly with a fix.
> 
The buttons now work again in the small window/smartphone view.

> Note that on my testing server, I ended up trying a lot of different
> variations  Possibly because of that, my assets folder stopped updating with
> new releases.  I had to follow the instructions in README.Debian (taken from
> upstream) to manually regenerate the assets folder.  I have no reason to
> believe that will happen to users generally with this update, but it is
> something to be aware of.
> 
Since I have configured redmine to be served in a sub-uri and I use a modified 
/usr/share/redmine/config.ru , I have to empty and re-generate the assets folder 
after upgrading and after re-building my modified config.ru . Therefore, I 
assume that an upgrade always empties and re-generates the assets folder (which 
is owned by user and group www-data).

Regards,
Jörg.