[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#1025739: Is an autogenerated configure shell script non-editable source (Was: Bug#1025739: hmmer2: missing source for configure)

[Alexander Sulfrian]

Hi,

On Fri, Dec 09, 2022 at 01:14:40PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote:
> I would consider asking upstream about this for sure but the code is in
> maintenance mode and there is no Git repository to step back in history.
> The only way to go would be to take configure.ac from a later version
> and find out how it can be tweaked to create some working configure
> file from it.  I do not consider my time well spent in doing so except
> if there is some consensus here on the list that configure files without
> configure.ac are "missing source".

isn't the matching configure.ac available here?

    https://github.com/MichiganTech/hmmer/blob/2.3.2/configure.ac

This repository is at least referenced in debian/upstream/metadata and
the package version seems to match the git tag.


Alex