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Re: deduplicating jquery/

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From: Wookey <wookey@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2019 03:42:33 +0000
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On 2019-01-04 20:16 +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Quite a few packages have jquery/ embedded in documentation generated by
> javadoc. This yields to
> 
> Could openjdk perhaps build a package that would ship jquery/ in a known
> place, and packages would just depend on it and the generated jquery/
> directory be replaced with a symlink to the known place?

This would be very nice. I noticed yesterday that rebuilding one of my
packages in unstable adds a pile of jquery and jszip files that didn't
used to be there, taking up 1.2MB of space (unpacked) and making the
deb nearly twice as big (540K vs 300K). This does seem pretty
ridiculous.

Wookey
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