[Pkg-javascript-devel] JS policy: repackaging upstream tarball when minified js files are present (was: Call for review: should.js packages)

[Leo Iannacone]

On 7 May 2014 13:41, Jonas Smedegaard <dr at jones.dk> wrote:
>> I guess I understand my confusion now:
>> In the debate last 2 months, there were some pretty strong arguments
>> advanced why keeping the minified files was breaking the social
>> contract (and thus RC-worthy)
>> I looks like now that it is not necessarily as black and white.
>
> That has not changed: Some (including me) pretty strongly believe that
> keeping the minified files (not breaks not the social contract but) is
> in violation of Debian Policy and thus worthy of release-candidate bugs.
>
> It is up to those choosing not to follow guidelines to defend their
> reasoning that that is not the case.  Just as before.
>
>
>> Let's thus keep this as a recommendation/guideline/best practice for
>> our team, and see how/if the debate comes to a resolution at the level
>> of the entire project.
>
> Please note that I only claim guidelines can *help* avoid discussion -
> by either a) clearly documenting what is safe to do if you don't want
> trouble, or b) summarizing the essentials of one half of the debate -
> ideally cutting future threads in half.  Imagine threads where half the
> posts are shrunk to stuff like "How is your $foo compliant with Debian
> Policy §§x.y?  Point $bar in our guideline addresses that.".
>
>
>> Who can put Jérémy's text at the location Jonas mentions?
>
> Anyone understanding how "wiki" works and able to get a wiki.debian.org
> user account. :-)


Hi all!

I edited these pages:

 * https://wiki.debian.org/Javascript/Policy (js policy)
 * https://wiki.debian.org/Javascript/Nodejs/Manual (nodejs policy)

And added the "exclude-files" paragraph (as reported in this
discussion) and reviewed the style.

If someone want to take a look, just to be sure I did not put any
false sentence..


All the best,

Leo.