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  • Re: Is an autogenerated configure shell script non-editable source (Was

    From Bart Martens@21:1/5 to Alexander Sulfrian on Fri Dec 9 20:50:02 2022
    On Fri, Dec 09, 2022 at 04:07:30PM +0100, Alexander Sulfrian wrote:
    Hi,

    On Fri, Dec 09, 2022 at 01:14:40PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote:
    I would consider asking upstream about this for sure but the code is in maintenance mode and there is no Git repository to step back in history. The only way to go would be to take configure.ac from a later version
    and find out how it can be tweaked to create some working configure
    file from it. I do not consider my time well spent in doing so except
    if there is some consensus here on the list that configure files without configure.ac are "missing source".

    isn't the matching configure.ac available here?

    https://github.com/MichiganTech/hmmer/blob/2.3.2/configure.ac

    This repository is at least referenced in debian/upstream/metadata and
    the package version seems to match the git tag.

    That file may be available online for this particular software. The debate is about whether such configure.ac file must be included in the distributed package for making the package dfsg. And more in general, about where to draw the line on how easily editable (think: time well spent) the included source code must be for making the package dfsg. In my opinion there is no sharp line, and ftpmaster is well positioned for making fair choices in a +/- uniform way for all packages. And there is always be room for questioning those choices and allowing the meaning of dfsg evolve over time. Back to configure.ac, I'd support a choice of making a missing configure.ac an 'important' bug, and not enough for rejecting the package as non-dfsg.



    Alex


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  • From Paul Wise@21:1/5 to Andreas Tille on Sat Dec 10 04:10:01 2022
    On Fri, 2022-12-09 at 13:14 +0100, Andreas Tille wrote:

    Is an autogenerated configure shell script non-editable source

    [Short-winded way of saying something similar to Russ]

    In general I don't think such a situation meets DFSG item 2 nor the
    GPL "preferred form for modification", for the reasons outlined here:

    https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/[email protected]

    In this case, it does seem like a DFSG violation that the source file (configure.ac) is not available in Debian but is available upstream.

    Once the configure.ac is included, the current lack of ability to
    rebuild configure from it would probably cause an FTBFS bug too,
    since by default debhelper will automatically run autoreconf.

    --
    bye,
    pabs

    https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise

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  • From Philip Rinn@21:1/5 to All on Sun Dec 11 17:00:01 2022
    To: [email protected] (Andreas Tille)

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