>>>>> "Adrian" == Adrian Bunk <b...@stusta.de> writes:
Adrian> On Tue, Oct 04, 2016 at 05:54:55PM -0400, Sam Hartman wrote: >> >>>>> "Adrian" == Adrian Bunk <b...@stusta.de> writes: >> Adrian> In other words, the best way forward for getting any Adrian> decision would be an RC bug against perl claiming that the Adrian> Configure script is not DFSG-free. >> >> This RC bug was filed, and I think everyone involved including >> the Perl maintainers agreed it was RC. >> >> I'd be really surprised if the TC or FTP team disagreed about our >> need to be able to regenerate the perl configure script using >> tools only in Debian. Adrian> RC bug #762638 was resolved with Adrian> https://sources.debian.net/src/perl/5.24.1~rc3-3/debian/README.source/#L128 Sigh. I'm entirely unsatisfied by that conclusion and disagree with the Perl maintainer's decision. I think that if the metaconfig.git sources for the version of perl in Debian were also in Debian, then the README.source discussion would be sufficient. Adrian> Are you saying Pirate Praveen could also use this solution Adrian> for browserified javascript in main? No. The circumstances are different in nontrivial details and I think the Perl maintainer is wrong. --Sam