Re: Parsers generated from grammars: allowed, or have to be rebuilt?
Dear Gregor,
On 07/17/2018 02:40 PM, gregor herrmann wrote:
> [Please use debian-perl@lists.debian.org for discussions (cc'd now),
> pkg-perl-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org is for the maintainer
> address and bug reports.]
Thanks for directing the right way.
> My understanding of policy, in my own words, is that
> - generated stuff must be possible to regenerate with software in
> debian main
> - and should be regenerated during package build
Exactly. And this has a bunch of other advantages, for example, bugs might get fixed in the generating software, etc.
> Please go ahead with bug reports and patches/commits for the affected
> packages :)
Thanks, I will proceed. However, regeneration with Parse::Yapp will introduce reproducibility problems due to its non-deterministic output [1].
Best,
Andrius
[1] https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=122977
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Andrius Merkys
Vilnius University Institute of Biotechnology, Saulėtekio al. 7, room V325
LT-10257 Vilnius, Lithuania
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