| From: |
| Sam Hartman <hartmans-AT-debian.org> |
| To: |
| Adrian Bunk <bunk-AT-stusta.de> |
| Subject: |
| Re: Bug#839570: Browserified javascript and DFSG 2 (reopening) |
| Date: |
| Tue, 04 Oct 2016 21:06:12 -0400 |
| Message-ID: |
| <tsl60p7ob97.fsf@mit.edu> |
| Cc: |
| debian-ctte-AT-lists.debian.org |
>>>>> "Adrian" == Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> writes:
Adrian> On Tue, Oct 04, 2016 at 05:54:55PM -0400, Sam Hartman wrote:
>> >>>>> "Adrian" == Adrian Bunk <bunk@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/R...
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
