On Sun, 30 Aug 2015, Bas Wijnen wrote: > Why do you care that software is in main, if you evidently do not care about > any of the rules we have for it?
I don't think that implying that Vincent doesn't not care about Free Software is very constructive. Can we please stop this now? If all the energy spent in this thread would have been spent in improving our javascript ecosystem, it would have been better. I understand both sides of this discussion and it's a hard problem. I used to package wordpress with its share of javascript. I maintain publican which embeds 3 javascript libraries (jquery, jquery.carrousel, highlight.js). In both cases, I worked around the problem by shipping the upstream sources in debian/missing-sources/ but I did not support doing changes there and did not rebuild the embedded libraries. In some cases, I do replace the embedded library with a symlink to the packaged files and I even created dh_linktree to make this easier. I certainly do not want to move wordpress or publican to contrib because some of the javascript libraries that it uses can't be rebuilt from main. I certainly wish we could do it but it's not an itch that I want to scratch. Do you see now how you question is not constructive? The javascript bits are free software and are often a small part of a bigger project that is free software. As long as we provide the non-minified javascript files along with all the embedded copies that we have, we are respecting our social contract. If some people want to go further, fine, they have all my support. But now I'd like that people stop to give lessons to their fellow DD who are actively trying to package parts of the javascript world. If we want to solve this, we need more such persons, not less. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer Support Debian LTS: http://www.freexian.com/services/debian-lts.html Learn to master Debian: http://debian-handbook.info/get/
