On Thu, Oct 19, 2017 at 08:23:24PM +0200, Markus Koschany wrote: >... > In my opinion the configure script of glee is DFSG-compliant and > suitable for main. The license states: > > # Copyright (C) 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc. > # This configure script is free software; the Free Software Foundation > # gives unlimited permission to copy, distribute and modify it.
According to debian/copyright the FSF is not a copyright holder of glee, and the licence is likely not what you quote. Whoever wrote the configure.{ac,in} would actually be relevant here. > It is correct that configure scripts are usually auto-generated but we > have never treated the absence of those files as RC issues. In > consequence this means that all automake packages which cannot use > dh-autoreconf are unsuitable for main. You are mixing two related but separate issues. Problems when using dh-autoreconf are a grey area, but these are being sorted out with autoreconf usually being used now (in earlier times autoreconf was nearly never done in Debian). No configure.{ac,in} at all is a pretty clear situation, and also very rare. > Thus I believe the resolution of > this bug report would be of general importance to the Debian project and > should be discussed on debian-devel at least. The topic has already been discussed there countless times, most recently for things like minified JavaScript. > However I am in favor of closing this bug report as "not-a-bug". In NEW this bug alone would be sufficient for a direct reject[1]: Source missing Your package contains files that need source but do not have it. These include PDF and PS files in the documentation, or auto-generated files. Source package missing source Source packages are part of the distribution. As such source must be present for all files in the source package itself, ... > Regards, > > Markus cu Adrian [1] https://ftp-master.debian.org/REJECT-FAQ.html -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed