[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#1025739: Is an autogenerated configure shell script non-editable source

[Andreas Tille]

Hi Paul,

Am Sun, Dec 11, 2022 at 12:21:18PM +0800 schrieb Paul Wise:
> > So far for the actual case (bug report in CC).
> > 
> > For the general case I somehow understand the consensus here on the list
> > that a missing configure.ac can be considered a bug but the severity
> > serious is not really rectified.  If I understood this correctly I would
> > reset the severity to important at the beginning of next week.
> 
> Personally I feel that severity serious is the correct one,

Could you give some arguents for your feeling.  May be I interpreted
posts in this thread wrongly but I read it like serious is a to high
severity.  Moreover what does this mean for other packages where
configure.ac is missing?  I'm 100% sure that we have quite some packages
where this is the case.  I admit I'm not motivated to seek for these
and file a MBF but if there is some consensus about this we should act
accordingly.  On the other hand if we have no consensus it should not
be of RC critical severity.

> but it sounds like the fix for the bug is quite simple:
> 
> https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/Y5RiR8qidvJ4RAQt@argenau.bebt.de

I think the fact whether a fix is simple or not does not matter for the
severity of a bug.  Unfortunately the solution is not as simple as
described (as I wrote in response to the said mail).

Kind regards

      Andreas.

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