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

[Andreas Metzler]

On 2022-12-09 Andreas Tille <andreas at an3as.eu> wrote:
[...]
> Thanks to Alexander Sulfrian who pointed out the Git repository
> featuring old tags that were obviously taken over from SVN I was proven
> wrong with the statement that there is no configure.ac any more.

> Unfortunately this is no simple drop-in with modern autoconf tools
> and my weak attempt in Git to use this failed.[1]
[...]

Hello,

I have given this a a little bit of time. This seems to work:

1. Copy configure.ac from upstream's 2.3.2h2 branch.
2. Add 'export AUTOHEADER = true' to debian/rules.

cu Andreas
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