On Sat, Mar 30, 2024 at 5:41 PM Bruno Haible <br...@clisp.org> wrote: > > Eric Gallager wrote: > > Recommending the `distcheck` target to a wider variety of users would > > help more projects catch mismatches between things a distribution > > tarball is supposed to contain, and things that it isn't. > > While 'make distcheck' detects some of these mismatches, it does not > detect them all. In particular: > > * In order to detect that a tarball contains too many files, that is, > some files that the release manager did not intend to include, > the best way is to compare the file list of the current tarball > with the previous version: > $ diff -r -q package-prev_version/ package-curr_version/ > > * In order to detect whether the packaged file list is consistent > with the .gitignore file, one can use > $ git status -u > > Bruno >
Hm, so should automake's `distcheck` target be updated to perform these checks as well, then?
