On Thu, 14 Feb 2019 09:41:13 +0100 Paul Gevers <elb...@debian.org> wrote:
> While investigating ways to fix bug #896468 (new version for
> libjs-chartjs), I discovered that ruby-rails-assets-chartjs doesn't
> contain the source of Chart.js and for sure doesn't build Chart.js from
> the upstream source.
> 
> Ironically, the same person (in a different team), packaged the same
> thing again in the node-chart.js source package. I propose to remove
> this package from Debian and all dependencies (in X-Debbugs-CC) must
> migrate to the new binary package.

If you had checked the ITP you would not have felt it was ironic.
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=908325

"This is a dependency of gitlab 10.x and it will also provide
libjs-chartjs built from its source for ruby-rails-assets-chartjs."

It was originally packaged for gitlab and since we could not complete
packaging all dependencies of gitlab, this was not a priority for
buster. I was intending to get gitlab back in main including fix for
this in time for bullseye.

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