On Sun, Nov 26, 2017 at 07:45:13AM +0100, Paul Gevers wrote: > Hi Julian, > > On 26-11-17 01:29, Julian Andres Klode wrote: > > The file src/zxcvbn/dict-src.h is an autogenerated dictionary file, > > generated from smaller files. The directory is removed during build. > > Are you saying that these smaller files are in the tar ball, but after > one build the files are gone? That would mean you have a problem to > build twice in a row.
That's wrong. You can always remove files, removals are ignored when building the tarball. That's how dh-autoreconf works. > > I'm not entirely sure if I need to repackage the source tarball or > > not, given that the file is removed during clean, hence the bug > > report and CCing debian-devel. > > I would copy the directory to some tmp folder in debian/ during the > configure step (if not done before) and move it back during the clean > step (and copy it from debian/ in the step where you are building > src/zxcvbn/dict-src.h). > > I don't see any issue, except you should ask upstream to fix the > situation. Repacking the source tarball for this feels wrong, except if > you need to do that for other reasons as well. I'd say that's reasonable, yes. -- debian developer - deb.li/jak | jak-linux.org - free software dev ubuntu core developer i speak de, en
