Bug#874381: lintian: false-positive source-is-missing bug for css_browser_selector.js

[Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org>]

On Tue, Sep 05, 2017 at 07:18:01PM +0100, Chris Lamb wrote:
> Hi Julian,
> 
> > >   https://github.com/rafaelp/css_browser_selector/blob/master/css_browser_selector_dev.js
> > 
> > No, that's a completely different piece of code.
> 
> Good grief, that's extremely confusing. For others following along:
> 
>   https://github.com/rafaelp/css_browser_selector/blob/master/css_browser_selector.js
> 
> … is not a minified version of 
> 
>   https://github.com/rafaelp/css_browser_selector/blob/master/css_browser_selector_dev.js
> 
> I still might question whether css_browser_selector.js (ie. non "_dev")
> is really source code in any meaningful sense of the word. At the very
> least, how does upstream make any changes or bug fixes?

Interesting question.  There was a source file but it was removed from
the git repository on Sep 20, 2008.  There was a complete rewrite
committed on Jan 5, 2009.  Mind you, the source file was still only 8
lines long, most of which were very short and the bulk of the code was
still in one very long line.  So maybe there is unpublished source
code, or maybe he just likes writing unreadable code?

   Julian