Sergey 'Jin' Bostandzhyan wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 10:12:08PM +0100, Mehdi wrote: >>> I'm not sure if Leo already told you this, but here's a bug asking for >>> mediatomb not to use an embedded prototype.js. >>> >>> I've already tried using the prototype.js delivered in Debian (version >>> 1.6.0.2). It's giving me problems with the web UI where I can't click over >>> to "Filesystem" to browse my computer. The prototype.js embedded in >>> mediatomb >>> is version 1.5.1.1. >>> >> I've just test mediatomb with debian-shipped prototype 1.6.1 but got >> no issues. The UI is working fine, and I'm able to click over >> "Filesystem" to browse my computer. Do you think that 1.6.1 fixed the >> problems encoutered while using 1.6.0? > > we have prototype 1.6.1 in SVN now and the web UI works fine with it. We are > still embedding it, because prototype updates can break functionality, at > least > it did happen in the past a couple of times. >
thanks for the fast answer! > You could patch it out in the .deb package so that the system wide prototype > is used, however care should be takaen when it is being updated, i.e. it will > need testing to be sure that a newer prototype version does not break the UI. > That could be coordinated with the usual libjs-prototype maintainer (CC'ed) when updates happen. At least, maintainers of software using prototypejs should be warned before a new version is being uploaded so that they can test their packages and detect possible breakage. Kind regards, -- Mehdi Dogguy مهدي الدڤي http://dogguy.org/ _______________________________________________ pkg-multimedia-maintainers mailing list pkg-multimedia-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-multimedia-maintainers
