❦ 26 août 2015 13:01 +0100, Ian Jackson <ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk> :
>> It's "unfair" to ask packages using JS stuff to be
>> "perfect" right now while the difficulties are far greater.
>
> I'm sorry to say that the very fact that the difficulties are more
> severe is an argument /against/ tolerating un-rebuilt minified js.
>
> If in practice it were almost always easy to edit the unminified
> source, and rebuild the minified version, to generate a working
> package, then we would probably tolerate the deviation from best
> practice implied by not actually regenerating.
In the Debian context, the problem is hard. But if you allow network
access and execution of arbitrary code recovered from some random
registry, rebuilding the minified version from the unminified one is
quite trivial.
I know how it sounds.
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Use the fundamental control flow constructs.
- The Elements of Programming Style (Kernighan & Plauger)
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