On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 2:01 PM, Eric Lavarde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Onkar, > > Onkar Shinde wrote: >> >> What is wrong with cleaning up prebuilt jar files in clean target in >> debian/rules? If you use this approach you don't have to repack the >> upstream tarball every time there is a new version. >> Is there any policy against this approach? If yes, can you please >> point me to it? > > I'm not sure there is any *explicit* policy against this, but the definition > of the clean target is that it brings the build environment in the same > state as it was before the build. Well, before the build, the jars were > there... So, basically, you land in a confusing (because not done in any > other package) and undefined state, not to think about problems you might > get with diffs on binary files. > I think it would be a no-go for any mentoring DD (something I am not).
If there is no policy about this then I guess this good time to have one. Because I am always told (in #ubuntu-motu) to keep the orig.tar.gz as close as possible to upstream tarball and hence use clean target to delete jar files. I am still learning lot of things about packaging so I would like to get habituated to right approach. And if the approach is backed by a policy then even better. Onkar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
