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/50184a59271c953a3f9a3c99bb193dc05e61f2aa.camel@debian.org 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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