On Thursday, November 20, 2014 11:40:18 PM Salvo Tomaselli wrote: > > Could you include some information about the upstream you are talking > > about and the specific files you are concerned about? > > I am talking about this bug: > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=769830 > > The package has a lintian override that I suggested, on the grounds that the > incriminated file doesn't go inside a .deb package. > > I am neither upstream or Debian maintainer for the package, but I have sent > some patches to both. > > The minified javascript file mentioned in the bug is completely ignored in > Debian. It is replaced with a soft link and a dependency. > > I don't think upstream would remove these minified javascript files, because > they would need a more complex build process and more dependencies. The > files are just used to do an "HTML export", so they are just copied inside > a directory when the HTML export is done, so I think that to convince them > to build them, we would need very strong arguments. Consider that they > support windows and mac as well, so they'd need their build process to work > on these platforms.
Go read the FTP Team statement that was referenced up-thread. Your premise for the override is incorrect from the point of view of the FTP Team. Scott K -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/1814299.PxqWUR9ErG@kitterman-optiplex-9020m
