Hi Thibaut, On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 11:32, Thibaut Paumard <paum...@users.sourceforge.net> wrote: > On many of my packages, the "configure" phase modifies some files (e.g. > Makefile). > > The lines which are overwritten are totally irrelevant: they reflect the > particular set-up on which the upstream developer has packaged the original > source. > > Upstream's clean target don't revert those changes. If I don't do anything > specific, those files appear in the diff.gz file which can be considered > clutter. If I want to do avoid this, I need to clutter the rules file > instead or to use a patch system. > > Which attitude is best? Is there a clear policy or consensus ?
use debian/rules 'clean' target (the one that also invoke the 'clean' makefile upstream target) to remove/revert the files not handled by upstream makefile. The goal is to have, after debian/rules clean, the exact same situation you have once dpkg-source -x <pkg>.dsc , so upstream tarball extracted + diff.gz applied. Note that removed files in debian/rules clean target will not be represented in diff.gz so they are taken back from the upstream tarball (so de facto reverting to the upstream file "easily"). Cheers, -- Sandro Tosi (aka morph, morpheus, matrixhasu) My website: http://matrixhasu.altervista.org/ Me at Debian: http://wiki.debian.org/SandroTosi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
