I am asked to act as a sponsor of phpunit [*] package. However there's a situation that needs an advice. There's JS in the package that was run through the filter which deletes comments and spaces. In fact it is like Java script passed through obfuscator.
I suggested to maintainer to replace this JS by the JS source and use the
filter (if it is necessary) in the moment of fulfilling debian/rules.
However it seems that there's no source of this JS in public access, though
JS itself is distributed by BSD license.
Judging by the apt-file output the same JS is used in a few more packages:
$ apt-file search yahoo-dom-event.js
bugzilla3: /usr/share/bugzilla3/web/js/yui/yahoo-dom-event.js
- lenny [1]
gallery2: /usr/share/gallery2/lib/yui/yahoo-dom-event.js
- lenny/sid [2]
phpunit: /usr/share/php/PHPUnit/Util/Report/Template/yahoo-dom-event.js
- lenny/question package [*]
yui: /usr/share/yui/html/yahoo-dom-event/yahoo-dom-event.js
- lenny/sid [3]
and everywhere in the same form.
JS - is an interpreter language, _theoretically_ it is possible to
_restore_ the source, but if following DFSG then in fact the source is not
included into archive. This is a bug of the Serious level (at least for
Debian/main).
Am I right? Please help me to make a decision: what is better to do?
1. to became a sponsor of the package
2. to post Serious bugs to [1] [2] [3] [*] packages
3. to move the package to non-free (there's no source)
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