Bastien ROUCARIES: > Hi, > > They are a few package that FTBFS due to lack of browserify under debian [1] > > The most significant point is to render javadoc FTBFS due to lack of > browserified version of pako a port of zlib to javascript. > > I plan to upload browserify soon but browserify is blocked by: > * node-insert-module-globals in NEWS (prod ftpmaster) > * node-has-object-spread not yet packaged (i plan to do it) > * node-has-template-literals not yet packaged (i plan to do it) > > Browserify (or webpack) is a static compiler for javascript. I believe > that we must use built-using field in order to be policy compliant. > > I can output a list of javascript module (or file installed in the > tree) but I lack the > debhelper skill needed to output automatically built-using. > > Can somebody help me ? > > Bastien > > [1] For an approximation see > https://lintian.debian.org/tags/source-contains-browserified-javascript.html > that also include webpack >
AFAIUI, Built-Using is solely to be used for compliance with licenses (GPL or GPL-like licenses). Are these node modules under GPL or a GPL-like license? If not, there should be no need for Built-Using. Thanks, ~Niels
