On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 05:37:11PM +0100, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: > On Wed, 2016-07-13 at 10:43 -0500, Don Armstrong wrote: > > Or are you asking us to potentially overrule the ftpmasters inclusion > > of libjs-handlebars? Or potentially overrule the release managers > > determination of whether this particular bug is RC or not? > [...] > > I'd certainly be more comfortable if the ftpmasters and release > > managers would weigh in here. > > On the concrete case of libjs-handlebars: the JS files we distribute > seem to be generated by a parser-generator and thus certainly shouldn't > qualify as source. I filed a seperate bug for this to keep it apart > from the browserification issue, see [1]. > > [1] https://bugs.debian.org/830986
Now I'm confused as to how we handled Perl (#762638). It has a Configure script that claims[2] to be generated by a configure-generator called metaconfig. A significant part of metaconfig's job (like grunt's) is concatenating snippets, but there are some generated parts (e.g. the variable lists[3]). Neither metaconfig nor the sources for Configure reside in any Debian package[4]. Contrary to their claims[5], upstream doesn't[6] even take patches when they hit the generated parts. To me, this sounds entirely parallel to libjs-handlebars. The one difference that remains is that Perl's Configure really is patched in Debian. I'd assume Pirate Praveen to be able to produce a patch for libjs-handlebars if needed. Wouldn't it be fair to allow libjs-handlebars as is? What is it that makes us treat it differently? Lower popcon? Helmut [2] http://sources.debian.net/src/perl/5.24.0-1/Configure/#L14 [3] http://sources.debian.net/src/perl/5.24.0-1/Configure/#L208 and http://sources.debian.net/src/perl/5.24.0-1/Configure/#L24098 [4] In relevant versions. There is the dist package, but trying to regenerate Perl's Configure with that results in a diff changing half of its lines. [5] Last sentence of https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=762638#34 [6] https://rt.perl.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=124326#txn-1351869
