[Python-apps-team] Bug#952546: bootstrap.min.js in pydoctor

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Quoting Ian Jackson (2020-02-25 18:40:47)
> For -devel, context is that Anthony Fok just uploaded a new upstream 
> version of pydoctor (a tool for extracting API docs for python 
> modules) in order to fix a couple of upstream bugs.  Anthony, thank 
> you very much for your work to help fix one of our (mutual) indirect 
> dependencies.
> 
> Unfortunately the new pydoctor has some DFSG issues (#952546, CC'd).
> 
> I am hoping that -devel can advise what the conventional approach is 
> to the package containing a sourceless copy of bootstrap.min.js.
> 
> I'm guessing that the answer is to strip the sourceless file from the 
> package, and have the binary package contain a symlink into the file 
> tree of some other package which contains an appropriate bootstrap 
> file ?  But is this right, and if so which package ?
> 
> I vaguely remembered this having been discussed before but I couldn't 
> find the conclusions written down anywhere.  I looked in quite a few 
> places for answers to this: I searched the lintian tags for missing 
> source, but they all seemed quite generic.  I tried to search -devel 
> archives for "bootstrap" (too many hits) and "bootstrap.min.js" 
> (nothing relevant).  I tried various wiki searches too.

If you need Bootstrap 3.x, then add symlink to path 
/usr/share/javascript/bootstrap/js/bootstrap.min.js and depend on 
package libjs-bootstrap.

If instead you need Bootstrap 4.x, then you should do something similar 
but for some path below /usr/share/javascript/bootstrap4 and package 
libjs-bootstrap4 (I am vague here because that package apparently use a 
symlink internally requiring actually installing the package to know for 
certain which exact path it is - no, you should *not* link below 
/usr/share/nodejs as that path is not reliable).

 - Jonas

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