Re: "Browserified" stuff

2016-10-13 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 14457 March 1977, Martín Ferrari wrote: >> It is not useless, and contrib is way different than any random >> repository out there. > I am not sure about that. We discourage people from using contrib, and > don't promise much support. Whereas upstream can offer the latest > package always. > T

Re: "Browserified" stuff

2016-10-11 Thread Martín Ferrari
On 10/10/16 21:40, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > It is not useless, and contrib is way different than any random > repository out there. I am not sure about that. We discourage people from using contrib, and don't promise much support. Whereas upstream can offer the latest package always. This is serve

Re: "Browserified" stuff

2016-10-11 Thread Martín Ferrari
On 10/10/16 16:35, Bas Wijnen wrote: > So the decision is that this code in its current form does not belong in main. > If I understand your position correctly, you do not dispute this, but you seem > to advocate that it should be allowed in main anyway, to avoid demoralizing > the > developers (i

Re: "Browserified" stuff

2016-10-10 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 14456 March 1977, Martín Ferrari wrote: > On 09/10/16 23:56, Adam Borowski wrote: > >> Another issue is, as mentioned in the TC discussion, the inability to fix >> any non-trivial security bugs in stable. I can't quite imagine the Security >> Team hunting for a specific old version of grunt and

Re: "Browserified" stuff

2016-10-10 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 14455 March 1977, Adam Borowski wrote: > On Sat, Oct 08, 2016 at 10:45:08PM +0200, Joerg Jaspert wrote: >> we had a discussion inside the FTP Team about the "browserified js" >> issue. We understand that "browserified" refers to various changes to >> the original source, from concatenating multi

Re: "Browserified" stuff

2016-10-10 Thread W. Martin Borgert
Quoting Bas Wijnen : 1. Package the tools that are required for building from source. 1a: It might not even be necessary to package the tools used by upstream. In some cases, adhoc tools to perform similar tasks are sufficient. Antonio Terceiro did this with jQuery successfully (debian/

Re: "Browserified" stuff

2016-10-10 Thread Adam Borowski
On Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 03:08:17PM +0200, Martín Ferrari wrote: > On 09/10/16 23:56, Adam Borowski wrote: > > Another issue is, as mentioned in the TC discussion, the inability to fix > > any non-trivial security bugs in stable. I can't quite imagine the Security > > Team hunting for a specific ol

Re: "Browserified" stuff

2016-10-10 Thread Bas Wijnen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 03:08:17PM +0200, Martín Ferrari wrote: > Prometheus being in contrib basically means the work I have done for the > past year is worthless, as users could as well just grab unofficial > packages from other places. I am not sayi

Re: "Browserified" stuff

2016-10-10 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 03:08:17PM +0200, Martín Ferrari wrote: > Prometheus being in contrib basically means the work I have done for the > past year is worthless, as users could as well just grab unofficial > packages from other places. contrib packages are not "unofficial". -- WBR, wRAR sig

Re: "Browserified" stuff

2016-10-10 Thread Martín Ferrari
On 09/10/16 23:56, Adam Borowski wrote: > Another issue is, as mentioned in the TC discussion, the inability to fix > any non-trivial security bugs in stable. I can't quite imagine the Security > Team hunting for a specific old version of grunt and all of its extensive > dependencies to rebuild t

Re: "Browserified" stuff

2016-10-09 Thread Adam Borowski
On Sat, Oct 08, 2016 at 10:45:08PM +0200, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > we had a discussion inside the FTP Team about the "browserified js" > issue. We understand that "browserified" refers to various changes to > the original source, from concatenating multiple (local and remotely > fetched) files togeth