[Fedora-packaging] jquery bundling for new packages

[Orion Poplawski]

On 09/19/2013 05:52 AM, T.C. Hollingsworth wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 2:35 AM, Jens Petersen <petersen at redhat.com> wrote:
>> TIL that there are around a thousand packages
>> in Fedora that include a file named jquery.js... [1]
> 
> For added fun, there are about 100 more files named jquery.js in the distro than
> there are packages containing that file, so some of those packages have several
> copies of it.  Or maybe one has a hundred?  The mind boggles.  O_o
> 
>> Anyway it is good to see efforts to tackle these kinds of problems
>> with the Javascript and Web Assets Guidelines. :)
>>
>> I want to ask if the packaging of grunt and jquery
>> blocks current package reviews of packages that bundle jquery.js?
>> Or can they proceed for now until jquery is actually packaged in Fedora?
> 
> Toshio at least seemed to be of the opinion that they have to wait now:
> https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2013-August/187836.html
> 
> Personally, I'd rather put it off until F21 branch time or something like that.
> We're not quite ready to kick this off yet (most of the Change got punted off
> to F21 thanks to scope creep and me not having time to get what needed to be
> done done before change freeze).
> 
> Honestly, a few more copies of jquery.js really aren't going to kill us at this
> point.  As long as it's not 100 in one package, anyway.  ;-)
> 
> I'll try and catch FPC during their meeting in a few hours and see if they have
> an opinion on this if I can, but I'm not sure I can be on IRC at the time.  Feel
> free to bring it up there yourself if you'd like.
> 
>> Jens
>>
>> ps It is going to be a long cleanup process to fix all those packages with bundled files.
> 
> Sure is.  :-/
> 
> -T.C.
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Are we any farther on this now?  I've got a new review with query
(https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=734248)

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