On Wed, 22 Dec 2004, Mark Roach wrote: > On Wed, 2004-12-22 at 11:41 -0500, Mark Roach wrote: > > On Wed, 2004-12-22 at 23:45 +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote: > > > You can do all of the Debian-specific maintenance in a separate "debian" > > > branch of your revision control system (you do *use* a good revision > > > control > > > system, don't you?) and make regular orig+diff packages. > > FYI, I have switched over to this method. I think it will be simpler to > maintain. The only thing I noticed when building this way is that I get > this warning from dpkg-source > > dpkg-source: warning: ignoring deletion of directory autom4te.cache > dpkg-source: warning: ignoring deletion of file autom4te.cache/traces.0 > dpkg-source: warning: ignoring deletion of file autom4te.cache/requests > dpkg-source: warning: ignoring deletion of file autom4te.cache/output.0 > > Is this something I need to worry about? I could obviously just have > deleted that directory from my original tarball, but I'm curious why > that's happening.
Don't ship the autotools cache on your tarball, please. It is begging for trouble. Anyway, that's just patch telling it it cannot remove files, so it left them *untouched* (which is a very, very good reason to make sure your debian/rules clean target rm -f everything of the sort). -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
