Le 14 octobre 2015 08:51:16 GMT+02:00, Ole Streicher <oleb...@debian.org> a écrit : > > >Am 13.10.2015 um 22:23 schrieb Walter Landry: >> Ole Streicher <oleb...@debian.org> wrote: >>> Walter Landry <wlan...@caltech.edu> writes: >>>> Ole Streicher <oleb...@debian.org> wrote: >>>>> What are the general guidelines here? Somewhere in written form? >The >>>>> DFSG does not contain a hint here. >>>> The rule of thumb that I have seen applied is that 'source' is the >>>> preferred form of modification for the people making modifications. >>>> If a person really prefers editing 1400 character lines, then that >is >>>> the source. However, you can not just state that you prefer that. >>> I'd prefer just to ignore the line: it is a comment line that is not >>> needed for the functionality, so I see no reason to touch it at all. >The >>> only reason to touch it for me would be to delete it. >> Sorry, I had not noticed that it was a comment. I am confused as to >> why it is there. Do you know why? Could you get upstream to delete >> this seemingly useless line? That would solve your immediate problem >> and clean up the code. > >Upstream included the code on my request as an external source. I think >it would be not a good idea to ask them for the removal of the line, >since then their version would deviate from the original source. > >I am not a specialist at all for Javascript, and all I try is just to >keep a Python package (with a very responsive upstream!) in a good >shape. Unfortunately, nobody with Javascript experience and also nobody >from the Lintian team (who wrote the heuristics to identify this file >as >non-source, and also underlined that they still claim the file to be >non-source) took part in the discussion here so far. It looks a bit >weird for me that they create a Lintian "error" and seem not to have a >(even preliminary and discussable) "source" definition. So, I think >that >the lintian tag in question is more a "wild guess" and should be marked >as such.
Next Lintian version will count ; and ne more clever. However line > 512 will be tagged due to regex récursion problèm and it is totally insane. > >Best regards > >Ole -- Envoyé de mon appareil Android avec K-9 Mail. Veuillez excuser ma brièveté.
