Bug#902401: gfsview: missing source: debian/Makefile.in

[Adrian Bunk]

On Tue, Jun 26, 2018 at 11:02:11PM +0200, Christoph Berg wrote:
> Re: Anton Gladky 2018-06-26 <CALF6qJ=FoghWqT3X-cdv1xEKM0J7mMGz=ifxNbs-dd+1k4ThKw at mail.gmail.com>
> > thank you for bug report. Makefile.in was needed for some reasons.
> > If it will be removed, not sure the package will compile, needs to be
> > checked.

Upstream ships debian/ and the toplevel Makefile.am has debian in SUBDIRS.

Patching the toplevel Makefile.am is an option,
but the resulting patch not be upstreamable.

I'd suggest fixing this bug with:
  rm debian/Makefile.in
  touch debian/Makefile.am
  echo debian/Makefile.in > debian/clean

> > Anyway, the file is in a human-readable format, though generated.
> > I do not think there are some legal problems with it. Thus I have
> > reduced the bug`s severity.
> 
> What about debian/Makefile.am? Does that still exist somewhere?

http://gerris.dalembert.upmc.fr/darcs/gfsview-stable/debian/Makefile.am

> Can Makefile.in be generated from it?

Yes.

> Christoph

cu
Adrian

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