On Friday 15,January,2010 04:39 PM, Floris Bruynooghe wrote: > On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 02:16:10PM +1100, Ben Finney wrote: >> Cyril Brulebois <k...@debian.org> writes: >> >>> Ben Finney <ben+deb...@benfinney.id.au> (15/01/2010): >>>> Now, this is a “pedantic”-level tag, but it does seem valid: the >>>> SOURCES.txt file is in fact modified from the original upstream >>>> source. >>> >>> Just rm it in clean? >> >> But that would also result in a change from the original upstream >> source. No? > > Backup and restore the file? I do that with some autotools stuff in a > package in order to keep a clean diff. dpkg-source doesn't record deletions of files. So if you rm the changed files away, dpkg-source won't take note of it and your diff.gz will be clean. In the case of autotools stuff, something like find -name Makefile.in -delete after an autoreconf works well.
-- Kind regards, Chow Loong Jin
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