Hi, On Sun, 2014-02-02 at 20:04 +0100, Helmut Grohne wrote: > Given that this report has not received sufficient information to > warrant the patch tag I am turning the issue into what I believe is at > its core: the embedding of jquery. It is already well documented at > /usr/share/doc/doxygen/README.jquery. The issue obviously results from > upstream decisions and I am not the one fixing it in the current > ecosystem. That means the tag wontfix will stay until at least one of > the following conditions is met: > > * We can do Arch:all binNMUs. > * All relevant jquery auxiliary libraries are packaged and there is > commitment to packaging the future libraries Doxygen upstream will > introduce. > * There is a patch, that does not break legitimate use cases. > > Given that I am not doing the work, there are no tracker bugs for the > former two issues. If they are created, I'd appreciate relevant block > commands to the bts. > > Still hoping that I am wrong and things are easier than this. ;-)
Can someone explain the use of JQuery like I'm five to me? I'm asking because JQuery requires "uglifyjs" which has a runtime dependency on NodeJS which heavily restricts buildability of the reverse dependencies due to Google's unwillingness to provide a generic, slow implementation of their V8 JavaScript engine. This limits the whole NodeJS stack to architectures with big companies behind as others don't have the funds to support a V8 port. >From what I understand, all that NodeJS does here is take some JavaScript code >and transpile it into other JavaScript code. I have never understood the purpose of this but Firefox suffers from the same problem [1] which makes the browser package which itself is very portable exclusive to release architectures. On the other hand, the JavaScript files can also be "cross-transpiled" from architectures that have NodeJS support to architectures which don't. Oracle does this in Solaris allowing them to build and ship Firefox for Solaris SPARC [2]. Wouldn't it be possible to do that here as well? Can't we just transpile the JavaScript on amd64 and stuff the result into the doxygen-common package? FWIW, I was able to build the doxygen package on sparc64 without the uglifyjs build dependency and after removing the call to jquery in debian/rules. Adrian > [1] https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=doxygen > [2] > https://github.com/oracle/solaris-userland/tree/master/components/desktop/firefox/wrapper-node -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer `. `' Physicist `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
