On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 3:15 PM, Andreas Tille <andr...@an3as.eu> wrote:
> Would you consider the existence of autotools autogenerated files inside > an upstream source a valid reason to rebuild upstream source in a > get-orig-source target? I would consider autotools generated files (Makefile.in, configure, etc) in an orig.tar.gz to be normal for an upstream project with a build system based on autotools. Indeed, if such projects had a tarball without those things I would consider it abnormal. I usually wouldn't consider rebuilding a tarball to remove such files. > More generally: Would you consider it a valid reason for rebuilding > upstream source if upstream forgot to `make (dist)clean`? Not sure what you are asking here. If upstream didn't use `make dist` or `make distcheck` and that caused a problem I would contact upstream and educate them about how to generate tarballs from autotools-based projects. > In several cases the answer "yes" to both questions would have saved me > a certain amount of time because I cared about "purists complaining that > debian/rules clean does not restore whatever crap was there upstream". I don't think `debian/rules clean` was ever supposed to restore stuff in orig.tar.gz, as long as debian/rules build regenerates it. So I wouldn't bother caring about such folks. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/AANLkTi=4986onj6f8yk3nifkt-omk68407bivv+kl...@mail.gmail.com
