On 19 July 2014 at 17:48, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
| On 19/07/2014, 2:52 PM, Bastien ROUCARIES wrote:
| > On Sat, Jul 19, 2014 at 4:11 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel <e...@debian.org> wrote:
| >> Duncan,
| >>
| >> The Debian package "linter" claims that the included file
| >>
| >>     inst/WebGL/CanvasMatrix.js
| >>
| >> in your rgl package lacks source code.
| >>
| >> I know next to nothing about Javascript, and to me Javascript always 
appeared
| >> to _be_ source code.
| > No ti is minified javascript, not source code. You lose comments and
| > variable name.
| 
| It's a "compiled" Javascript file -- minified, as Bastien says.  The
| docs describe where to get the original source, and have a copy of the
| copyright notice.  It's a very commonly included file in WebGL pages.
| 
| I'd rather not include the source, as it is redundant, and easily
| available elsewhere.

The powers-that-be and sticklers within Debian may then throw it out of the 
archive.

Dirk

| 
| Duncan Murdoch
| >> The GNU file tool seems to agree
| >>
| >>     edd@max:~/src/debian/CRAN/rgl-0.93.1098$ file 
inst/WebGL/CanvasMatrix.js
| >>     inst/WebGL/CanvasMatrix.js: ASCII text, with very long lines
| >>     edd@max:~/src/debian/CRAN/rgl-0.93.1098$
| >>
| >> Do you have a good answer?
| >>
| >> I am CCing the (to me at least somewhat overzealous) Debian colleague who
| >> filed this; maybe he has added insights. I am also ccing the bug report for
| >> process; records are at http://bugs.debian.org/754715
| >>
| >> Dirk
| >>
| >> --
| >> http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org
| 

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