[resending to the bug, sorry about the duplicate] On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 12:18:06AM +0200, Helmut Grohne wrote:
> I approach you with a difficult matter. The "Configure" script > distributed with the perl source package claims that it is being > generated. Porting/pumpkin.pod claims that Configure can be re-created > by invoking metaconfig -m. Indeed, there is a metaconfig binary in the > dist package. Running it on the perl tree does create a Configure that > remotely resembles the shipped Configure with a diff of about 18000 > lines (75%). In the recreated Configure many tests are missing and perl > won't build. It seems that perl's Configure cannot be recreated from > Debian sources. > > These observations let me conclude that the perl package - in spirit - > violates the DFSG by not providing the sources for Configure. I still > hope that this conclusion is flawed and ask you to adjust the severity > accordingly. metaconfig is meant to be run according to this recipe: http://perl5.git.perl.org/metaconfig.git/blob/HEAD:/README it won't be a perfect match, as manual patching of the file is allowed (see the comments) and indeed we patch Configure in the Debian package. We could certainly document this better (in README.source) but I am not convinced that this deserves RC severity. Dominic. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
