Hello Bruce and all. [Omitting autogen-users, I'll send a patch submission there in a separate mail.]
I started this thread with an unfortunate mail. Allow me to my current understanding of situation. On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 10:00:05AM -0700, Bruce Korb wrote: > [...] "maintainer-clean" semantics do not change. [...] Yes, that was the main answer I got from the list. The definition of "maintainer-clean" should not change. My mail sounded that I'm in favor of changing the definition. Actually, I was under the impression that no one takes the definition seriously, so I was trying to ask: 1) "Is this meant seriously?" 2) "If yes, how are we going to defend it?" Though I failed to formulate the questions properly, I think I got my answers: 1) Yes, and it is used in practice. 2) By implementing "auto* --clean" which would match people's need for "un-bootstrap". > * How about having autoreconf (aka "bootstrap") take an option: > autoreconf --clean > bootstrap --clean As said above, I gather that this is the way to go. Have a nice day, Stepan Kasal
