Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This only works because dpkg-buildpackage calls the clean target before > doing anything, BTW. And all things Debian follow its lead (i.e. pbuilder, > the buildds, sbuild, cvs-buildpackage, etc all either use dpkg-buildpackage > or do things as dpkg-buildpackage would do).
And that is the key piece of information I had missed. The clean target runs before the diff.gz is created. That makes many things easy. >> If the Debian maintainer has run autotools before uploading, should >> the buildds re-run the autotools or not? > > They need not to IMHO, but if you want them to, you can easily force that to > happen as well. I would only do that if I needed to dpatch configure.ac, > or something like that. > >> > Agreed. That's the current best practice for Debian, as far as I am >> > concerned. > > I should have added that doing it at build time if you have a good reason to > is also best-practice. > >> README.Debian.gz is a little obscure in places, and answers to the >> above questions would be helpful to me. > > Sure thing. Did the above answers help any? Yes. Thanks! -- KBK -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]