[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#798900: Bug#798900: lintian: false positive: source-is-missing for non-minified JS files

[Sascha Steinbiss]

Hi,

>> For the time being, would it be enough to add the DataTablesSrc repo
>> content (and a README) to aegean’s debian/missing-sources to comply
>> with DFSG until a DataTables package gets into the archive?
> 
> Better than nothing but I think it still violates ftpmaster policy
> since it might not be possible to build DataTablesSrc because JSHint
> isn't in Debian yet.

It looks like JSHint is not a hard requirement but will just not be used if it’s
not there:
https://github.com/DataTables/DataTablesSrc/blob/master/build/make.sh#L58
Otherwise I wouldn't mind patching the build script to not use it.

> Their policy is that things must be buildable from
> source but not that the source package has to build from source.
> Personally I think the only way to prove that you can build from source
> is to actually build from source, every time you build.

In principle I agree here.

>> I’m asking because the existing but apparently never uploaded draft
>> DataTables package [1] does not build DataTables from ‘source’ either
>> but just gets and repacks the built distribution from
>> https://github.com/DataTables/DataTables/. So I guess I would need to
>> start from scratch...
> 
> I see, yeah. If you do work on it, please replace the existing repo
> instead of starting a new repo.

Sure. Could you probably give me access to collab-maint then? As a DM I only have a
guest account on Alioth and someone has to approve me. I have sent a request via
the Alioth web interface quite some time ago but received no response.

Thanks,
Sascha
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