On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 07:02:37PM +0100, Tom Hughes wrote:
> On 28/03/17 18:49, Christopher wrote:
> 
> > The current version in Fedora is 2.2.4 (which is quite old now). I don't
> > know what it might break... I'm not even sure how to check which
> > packages depend on js-jquery. I've only taken over js-jquery because it
> > was orphaned for awhile, I need it for my package, and I didn't want it
> > to get retired. One thing I know... it's not reasonable to keep
> > packaging *every* major version of jQuery. Currently, there is
> > js-jquery1 (which is the last version 1) and js-jquery (which is the
> > last version 2). I would like to retire js-jquery1 eventually, and just
> > keep js-jquery at the latest.
> 
> Well rubygem-jquery-rails is a definite issue:
> 
> rubygem-jquery-rails-0:4.2.2-2.fc26.noarch
> jquery = 1.12.4
> jquery = 2.2.4
> 
> As far as I can see nothing else has an require that would actually be
> broken, and I don't think 2 to 3 is as big an issue as 1 to 2 so you might
> be ok.
> 
> You need to talk to the rubygem maintainer though, as that always has to be
> updated in lockstep with the main package.

python-XStatic-JQuery depends on js-jquery1 (and about 15 other
packages)

For those folks requiring jquery to upgrade to 3, how about introducing
js-jquery2 (for backwards compatibility) and upgrading js-jquery then?

Up to a certain point of time, it was ok to bundle js libs, you'd just
punish those maintainers who unbundled them.

-- 
Matthias Runge <[email protected]>
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