Paul Wise <[email protected]> writes: > On Wed, 2014-05-14 at 21:44 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> Why? > In addition, CSS minifiers can do a lot more than just removing > whitespace and comments: > https://yui.github.io/yuicompressor/css.html None of those transforms other than removing comments lose information so far as I can tell. As a package maintainer, I would find this tag extremely irritating, and would be tempted to simply automate adding overrides of it without further consideration. To me, it feels like you are taking the desire for source to an extreme that is going to annoy people using Lintian. I'm always worried that this would lead to people no longer using Lintian at all because it's annoying them with unimportant trivia. I also don't think the definition of preferred form of modification that you're using here is supported by the rest of the project. I'm not vetoing this or marking it wontfix because, as far as I'm concerned, Bastien is now the lead developer and it's really therefore his call, but I think this will be quite controversial. If you think I'm wrong, I think it would be good to raise this in debian-devel and see if you can actually get project consensus about this. In the long run, we probably need a GR on this whole general topic of source, since it's clear that different people have *massively* different understandings of what Debian should be doing in this area. -- Russ Allbery ([email protected]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
