Dependency question

[Mattia Rizzolo]

On Wed, Jul 01, 2020 at 07:18:56PM +0200, Gunnar Hjalmarsson wrote:
> Your application is packaged in Debian, i.e. Ubuntu simply syncs it from the
> Debian repo.

And it seems like I was the one sponsoring the last upload some 4 years
ago.  umpf.

> I notice this bug: https://bugs.debian.org/908694
> 
> Unfortunately the Debian package maintainer seems to have stepped down, and
> nobody else has fixed the bug. As a result the album-data package is not
> available in Debian Buster and Ubuntu 20.04.

I just pinged the "maintainer" on IRC, but I have no idea what it'll
yield.

> So the Debian package needs a new maintainer. Or at least it needs some love
> by some Debian developer who helps out by dropping that dependency.

I could do that update, if it is really just dropping the dependency.
But unfortunately it's not:
https://sources.debian.org/src/album-data/4.05-7/debian/rules/#L68
i.e., it's removing an embedded js library.  Is it really fine for it to
embed said library…?  In Debian we don't particularly like embedded
libraries.  Also I'm not spotting immediatly that .js in the copyright
file, which is a RC bug by itself.

I don't have enough time to actually go and see what's really going on
there, but if somebody produces an update and tells me that's fine I
could be convinced to sponsor it.

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