❦ 29 août 2015 19:12 -0700, Steve Langasek <vor...@debian.org> :
> Yet you try to compare this with autoconf. Even if we tolerated configure > scripts today in the archive that we can't rebuild using the software in > Debian (which by and large we do *not* tolerate - because we've learned our > lesson), there's a big difference in impact between a build script used once > at package build time and never shipped in the package to our users, vs. > swaths of user-facing UI code. The build script determines the outcome of what will effectively run on our users' machine. I fail to see how this is not an important issue. But until the effort to get ppc64el, not regenerating the configure script was just a fine option and not considered as DFSG violation (all bugs were filed with normal severity). And this existed for as long as Debian existed! >> all the code is free software and is provided with the appropriate >> source. A tiny part of it is difficult to rebuild from scratch. > > I don't know if this is true or not; the only package you've used as an > example in this thread is jquery 3.0.0-pre, which is a) not a package you're > the maintainer of, and b) not a version of the package that's present in > Debian. It seems that I have some difficulties to express myself correctly. I am sorry for that and let me explain my point more concisely. Software using jQuery (or another piece of Javascript) usually ship with a post-processed version of jQuery. For example (I take this example as Iceweasel doesn't build this component, I don't want to trigger some witch hunt): https://sources.debian.net/src/iceweasel/38.1.0esr-3/browser/components/loop/content/shared/libs/jquery-2.1.0.js/ Is that the preferred form of modification? It depends, but from the jQuery author point of view, it isn't: https://github.com/jquery/jquery/tree/2.1-stable/src However, this is a readable source code that will accomodate any modification that a end user will deem necessary. This is far more readable than the output of autoconf (again). For me, there is no strong problem with DFSG #2 by just using this file as the source code. -- Make input easy to proofread. - The Elements of Programming Style (Kernighan & Plauger)
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