[Pkg-javascript-devel] Bug#968944: libjs-jquery-datatables-extensions: vfs_fonts.js not redistributed

[Steffen Moeller]

Package: libjs-jquery-datatables-extensions
Version: 0.0+git20150910.28fd64e+dfsg-3
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

   * What led up to the situation?

When using pandoc this somehow senses the need to work with fonts and bails out since the file vfs_fonts.js is not found in the build folder.

   * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
     ineffective)?

This all becomes an issue while building (testing) the pigx-rnaseq package.

   * What was the outcome of this action?

pandoc:
/usr/lib/R/site-library/DT/htmlwidgets/lib/datatables-extensions/Buttons/js/vfs_fonts.js:
openBinaryFile: does not exist (No such file or directory)

   * What outcome did you expect instead?

I understand that the file with a copy of the GenShinGothic font (nice, but under a non-free license) is not redistributed. Instead, along instructions found on the net, Debian should prepare such a file itself with fonts that it ships. And the libjs-jquery-datatables-extensions should then get runtime dependencies on these font packages.

Thanks!

Steffen

-- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 5.7.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages libjs-jquery-datatables-extensions depends on:
ii  libjs-jquery  3.5.1+dfsg-4

Versions of packages libjs-jquery-datatables-extensions recommends:
ii  javascript-common  11

libjs-jquery-datatables-extensions suggests no packages.

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