Re: librejs support and autoconf bug

[Ben Sturmfels]

bill-auger <bill-auger@peers.community> writes:

> also, i have a work-around for the old autoconf bug - 
> i encountered it years ago, when i first tried to upgrade
> from 0.9.0; but i gave up then - recently, i decided to try again,
> and made some progress
>
> i found a bug report about it on the sr.ht forge - i must
> say that it is rather inelegant and unhelpful to have multiple
> bug trackers, each managing different bugs - thats why i am
> sending email, rather than registering on both websites to
> comment on the tickets
>
> https://todo.sr.ht/~mediagoblin/mediagoblin/12
> https://todo.sr.ht/~mediagoblin/mediagoblin/14
>
> the immediate cause of that bug is that the generated configure
> script is mangled/irregular...

Thanks Bill, I appreciate your insights here. We've now merged a change
into master that fixes the build for newer versions of autoconf.

Regarding the two bug-trackers, I guess my question would be - what
would you do if you had an unstable existing bug tracker that had many
many years of useful information in it?

I'm hoping there's a way we can preserve the Trac-based bug tracker,
which is why we link to it as "Bug tracker (legacy)" on the
mediagoblin.org home page. If you have other suggestions on ways to make
bug submission less confusing, let us know. :) Even better if you're
willing to help. :D

Regards,
Ben