On Sun, 2022-12-11 at 16:47 +0100, Andreas Tille wrote:
> Could you give some arguents for your feeling.
See the posts I made in this and earlier threads:
https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/4363a2435e61bf351c7d3605136c3652118eae2f.ca...@debian.org
https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/50184a5
Hi,
On 12/11/22 16:47, Andreas Tille wrote:
May be I interpreted
posts in this thread wrongly but I read it like serious is a to high
severity. Moreover what does this mean for other packages where
configure.ac is missing?
It depends on the licence, to some extent.
The GPL's definition of "
Hi Andreas,
Hi Andreas,
Am Sat, Dec 10, 2022 at 11:41:11AM +0100 schrieb Andreas Metzler:
I have given this a a little bit of time. This seems to work:
1. Copy configure.ac from upstream's 2.3.2h2 branch.
Seems in tag 2.3.2h2 happened what I tried with 2.3.2[1] at least
the resulting confi
Am Sun, Dec 11, 2022 at 10:43:37AM -0500 schrieb Boyuan Yang:
>
> Not sure if it is the root cause, but there's an obvious typo with quote at
> L12:
> https://salsa.debian.org/med-team/hmmer2/-/blob/423388accbb8c622edb663c845f1f5a6336256e1/debian/rules#L12
> .
Ahhh, thanks - I was seeking for the
Hi Paul,
Am Sun, Dec 11, 2022 at 12:21:18PM +0800 schrieb Paul Wise:
> > So far for the actual case (bug report in CC).
> >
> > For the general case I somehow understand the consensus here on the list
> > that a missing configure.ac can be considered a bug but the severity
> > serious is not real
Hi,
在 2022-12-11星期日的 16:35 +0100，Andreas Tille写道：
> Hi Andreas,
>
> Am Sat, Dec 10, 2022 at 11:41:11AM +0100 schrieb Andreas Metzler:
> >
> > I have given this a a little bit of time. This seems to work:
> >
> > 1. Copy configure.ac from upstream's 2.3.2h2 branch.
>
> Seems in tag 2.3.2h2 happ
Hi Andreas,
Am Sat, Dec 10, 2022 at 11:41:11AM +0100 schrieb Andreas Metzler:
>
> I have given this a a little bit of time. This seems to work:
>
> 1. Copy configure.ac from upstream's 2.3.2h2 branch.
Seems in tag 2.3.2h2 happened what I tried with 2.3.2[1] at least
the resulting configure.ac i
On Sat, 2022-12-10 at 10:28 +0100, Andreas Tille wrote:
> So far for the actual case (bug report in CC).
>
> For the general case I somehow understand the consensus here on the list
> that a missing configure.ac can be considered a bug but the severity
> serious is not really rectified. If I und
Andreas Tille writes:
> For the general case I somehow understand the consensus here on the list
> that a missing configure.ac can be considered a bug but the severity
> serious is not really rectified. If I understood this correctly I would
> reset the severity to important at the beginning of
On 2022-12-09 Andreas Tille wrote:
[...]
> Thanks to Alexander Sulfrian who pointed out the Git repository
> featuring old tags that were obviously taken over from SVN I was proven
> wrong with the statement that there is no configure.ac any more.
> Unfortunately this is no simple drop-in with mo
Am Fri, Dec 09, 2022 at 11:58:56AM -0800 schrieb Russ Allbery:
> The real problem in this case is less about the DFSG and more about the
> practical problems of maintaining Debian as a software distribution: if we
> can't regenerate configure using software in Debian, there are a lot of
> porting t
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
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
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
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:
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.
> >
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
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
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
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
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