On 2024-10-04 00:14:50, Daniel Swarbrick wrote:
> On 03.10.24 23:21, Antoine Beaupré wrote:
[...]
>> I would also argue *for* vendoring the stuff that's not practical to
>> package. We have a few special precedents in Debian for important
>> packages that have bent the rules a little bit to ship vendored copies
>> of source code (firefox and kubernetes, for example), and I think we
>> could get away with shipping a couple javascript libraries like this.
>
> If the Prometheus package gets a pass in that respect, it would surely
> make things a lot simpler, as we could stop de-blobbing the embedded
> assets, and basically not have to give any thought whatsoever to
> building the UI from scratch. I'm not sure how likely this is though.
I'm actually wondering if we could build two different binary packages:
one stripped down, without the react core (which would be useful
anyways!) and one with the blobs, that could perhaps be shipped in
contrib...
[...]
> It definitely looks better than it did a couple of years ago when I
> looked into this,
yes! i looked too, and this is also why i felt confident filing this bug
:)
> but there are still a fair number of "[???]"
> occurrences, where I was not able to find any packages that resemble
> what is being referred to.
Yep, those are the sticky bits. :)
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