Control: retitle -1 python-coverage: install bundled third-party ‘jquery.hotkeys.js’ library
On 15-Dec-2016, Loic Dachary wrote: > In the case of this javascript dependency, there is no reliable API, > no backward compatibility and no releases. That sounds like you're trying to convince people to never use this library :-) How did you reach those condemning conclusions? > Do you acknowledge that packaging coverage.py with dependencies that > are different from those provided in the upstream source may > introduce bugs ? Certainly, any change to any software can introduce bugs. Why do you ask whether I acknowledge that? If I understand you correctly, you are asking in this bug report that Debian's ‘python-coverage’ packages would bundle a third-party library that is a slightly different version of the already-packaged ‘libjs-jquery-hotkeys’. That isn't an option, as explained earlier. So we'll need to seek another solution. I think correct solutions would include: * Remove the dependency. If the state of that code is as bad as you say, this would be a good option; I hope we'll find that it's not as dire as you portray above. * Make the dependency optional. This is recorded in the Coverage.py issue tracker <URL:https://bitbucket.org/ned/coveragepy/issues/279/>. * Bring Coverage.py forward to use the latest API for ‘jquery.hotkeys’. There may be other options. What are your thoughts? -- \ “He was the mildest-mannered man / That ever scuttled ship or | `\ cut a throat.” —“Lord” George Gordon Noel Byron, _Don Juan_ | _o__) | Ben Finney <bign...@debian.org>
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