Vincent Bernat, le Fri 28 Aug 2015 10:48:28 +0200, a écrit : > ❦ 28 août 2015 10:29 +0200, Samuel Thibault <sthiba...@debian.org> : > > >> What will happen is that maintainers will fallback to the second less > >> horrible solution and cripple the package (by using an older version of > >> the JS lib for example) to allow it to stay in main. > > > > Why would they want to stay in main?
Ergl, I meant to drop that one sentence, and forgot to before sending. > [...] > > > I had the same issue with loadlin: it could only be built on MS-DOS with > > the proprietary tasm, and thus got #356055. I thus extended the free > > yasm to recognized the tasm syntax, and patched loadlin a bit to remove > > some extensions which were hard to implement in yasm but easy to replace > > in loadlin. > > > > Then it could stay in main. > > Here is why. And so they should work on making it happen, just like I did. Samuel
