Mike Hommey writes ("Re: Bug#362186: minor debian/rules improvements"):
> On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 06:38:17PM +0100, Ian Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> > - Calls `about.png.orig' `about.png.upstream' instead so that
> > it doesn't get removed by things that try to tidy up after
> > patching, which makes debian/rules clean work properly.
>
> What is the problem exactly ?
`.orig' is a suffix used by (amongst other things) patch, when it is
handling rejected patches. Many tools are set up to automatically
exclude or delete .orig files, including for example most revision
control systems.
You may remember me sending you a diff which tidies up the crud left
over by the Mozilla build system so that debian/rules clean actually
works; I suspect that the thing that deleted .orig in my environment
was that change to debian/rules, but it's by no means the only such
thing.
Using .orig for moving about.png aside is asking for trouble, I think.
Regards,
Ian.
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