On Sat, Nov 16, 2024 at 08:48:09PM +0100, Patrice Dumas wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 16, 2024 at 07:28:44PM +0000, Gavin Smith wrote:
> > 
> > non_ascii.tar should probably also go in MAINTAINERCLEANFILES.
> 
> Agreed.

OK, so the automake manual says:

     However ‘maintainer-clean’
     should not delete anything that needs to exist in order to run
     ‘./configure && make’.

So it shouldn't be deleted by "make maintainer-clean", as otherwise
someone could run this command from a tarball and be unable to get
the file back ("make" would still work, but "make check" wouldn't).

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