[Pkg-salt-team] Removing js libraries in repacking salt

[martin f krafft]

also sprach Joe Healy <joehealy at gmail.com> [2013.10.21.0916 +0200]:
> For those that are not (yet) in debian, but are DFSG, should I leave
> them in or remove them? The one in particular is a single minified
> file which appears to contain chunks of code under the:
> 
> 1) MIT & BSD licences - copyright modernizr
> 2) MIT & BSD licences - copyright Scott Jehl, Paul Irish, Nicholas Zakas
> 3) MIT/GPLv2 licences - copyright Scott Jehl

If you are repacking anyway, why not just remove them?

> Given the mix of licences (all DFSG compatible) and copyright in the
> one file, the minified nature and the minimal impact removing it has
> (especially given the greater impact of using the older version of
> bootstrap and jQuery that is in debian), I'm tempted to remove it. Is
> this a legitimate choice as a debian packager?

I'd say so. I thin the Debian packager that evaluates and
articulates the choices like you do is exactly the one empowered to
make those decisions…

Good luck, and many thanks!

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