Roland Mas <[email protected]> wrote: > Le 25/12/2025 à 14:20, Edward Betts a écrit : > > * Package name : dh-removebadges > > Version : 0.1 > > * URL : https://salsa.debian.org/debian/dh-removebadges > > * License : GPL-3+ > > Programming Lang: Perl > > Description : debhelper addon to remove remote badges and external > > images from documentation > > > > This debhelper addon automatically removes remotely-hosted images (such > > as > > build status badges, coverage badges, version badges from shields.io, > > GitHub, > > GitLab, etc.), iframes, and tracking scripts from documentation files in > > the > > package source tree. > > That's a great tool :-) May I suggest expanding the scope to also handle the > repetitive task of replacing the CDN links with local versions for common > JS/CSS libraries, such as Bootstrap and Jquery? That would probably require > injecting the appropriate dependency so as to use the system-installed > version, and should be written such that adding new replacement patterns > doesn't require rewriting code. Maybe the libjs-* packages themselves could > provide the patterns and the replacements, and dh-removebadges (if it keeps > that name) could parse these provided files as well as its own and act > accordingly.
Hi Roland, Thanks for your message, much appreciated. I really like that suggestion, and it fits neatly with the motivation behind the tool. The more I think about it, the more it feels like this wants to be broader than just badges. I'm leaning towards renaming it to dh-doc-privacy, with the scope being "remove or replace privacy-unfriendly external resources in documentation". Replacing CDN links for common JS/CSS libraries with system-installed versions is a great example of that. One possible approach would be to start by handling the most common cases (jQuery and Bootstrap), then later evolve it towards your idea of libjs-* packages providing patterns and replacement metadata. Your message has definitely nudged me towards thinking bigger about the problem space. Cheers, Edward
