Bug#879123: glee: source for configure is missing

[Paul Wise]

On Fri, Oct 20, 2017 at 4:52 AM, Markus Koschany wrote:

> This is not true. The configure file is human readable and the preferred
> source of modification in this case. Please also note that the author of
> glee licensed his work under the more liberal BSD-2-clause license. You
> cannot compare two very distinct issues like minified JS files and
> automake files and claim consensus has been reached already.
...
> Again quoted out of context and not relevant in this case. The source is
> the configure script. Period. Please feel free to discuss this on
> debian-devel or move it to the CTTE. I am willing to oppose this
> nonsense and harmful misinterpretation of Debian's Policy whenever and
> wherever I can.

The configure file is almost always generated from another file and
never modified, so it can never be the preferred form for
modification. This is obviously the case here. I don't understand your
reasoning, could you explain it?

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pabs

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