Re: Is an autogenerated configure shell script non-editable source (Was: Bug#1025739: hmmer2: missing source for configure)

2022-12-09 Thread Paul Wise
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 reaso

Re: looking for debian friendly web app technology

2022-12-09 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, 2022-12-09 at 13:12 +0100, Andreas Josef Heil wrote: > I'd like to develop a free software web app and I wanne be the debian > maintainer for it. It should be fully integrated to debian und freedombox. > > What web technology should I use? Personally I would suggest to focus on static si

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

2022-12-09 Thread Bart Martens
On Fri, Dec 09, 2022 at 11:58:56AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > Bart Martens writes: > > > 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 i

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

2022-12-09 Thread The Wanderer
On 2022-12-09 at 14:58, Russ Allbery wrote: > Bart Martens writes: > >> 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

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

2022-12-09 Thread Russ Allbery
Bart Martens writes: > 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:

Re: Is an autogenerated configure shell script non-editable source (Was: Bug#1025739: hmmer2: missing source for configure)

2022-12-09 Thread Bart Martens
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. > >

Re: Is an autogenerated configure shell script non-editable source (Was: Bug#1025739: hmmer2: missing source for configure)

2022-12-09 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Marco Am Fri, Dec 09, 2022 at 03:33:38PM +0100 schrieb Marco d'Itri: > On Dec 09, 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

Re: Is an autogenerated configure shell script non-editable source (Was: Bug#1025739: hmmer2: missing source for configure)

2022-12-09 Thread Alexander Sulfrian
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

Re: Is an autogenerated configure shell script non-editable source (Was: Bug#1025739: hmmer2: missing source for configure)

2022-12-09 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Dec 09, 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 crea

Re: Is an autogenerated configure shell script non-editable source (Was: Bug#1025739: hmmer2: missing source for configure)

2022-12-09 Thread Helmut Grohne
Hi Andreas, On Fri, Dec 09, 2022 at 01:14:40PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > This "prominent" example was heavily discussed and IMHO its not really > an example for the current case. If you look at the configure file of > hmmer2[1] it surely claims that it is autogenerated. However, its > perfec

Re: looking for debian friendly web app technology

2022-12-09 Thread Jérémy Lal
Hi, Le ven. 9 déc. 2022 à 13:13, Andreas Josef Heil a écrit : > > Hi! > > I'd like to develop a free software web app and I wanne be the debian > maintainer for it. It should be fully integrated to debian und freedombox. > > What web technology should I use? My first choice is > vuejs/vuetify/ex

Is an autogenerated configure shell script non-editable source (Was: Bug#1025739: hmmer2: missing source for configure)

2022-12-09 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Helmut, IMHO this should be discussed more widely. Am Thu, Dec 08, 2022 at 08:09:22PM +0100 schrieb Helmut Grohne: > Control: tags -1 - moreinfo > > On Thu, Dec 08, 2022 at 05:56:18PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > > I agree that this configure script looks auto generated but IMHO it can > > b

looking for debian friendly web app technology

2022-12-09 Thread Andreas Josef Heil
Hi! I'd like to develop a free software web app and I wanne be the debian maintainer for it. It should be fully integrated to debian und freedombox. What web technology should I use? My first choice is vuejs/vuetify/express/typeorm, but vuetify and typeorm are not packaged for debian. Is it