Julian Andres Klode wrote: > On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 03:13:14PM +0200, Mehdi Dogguy wrote: >> Paul Wise wrote: >>> On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 1:03 AM, Julian Andres Klode <j...@debian.org> >>> wrote: >>> >>>>> Description : debhelper add-on to call autoreconf and clean up >>>>> after the build >>>>> >>>>> Package: dh-autoreconf >>> I'd suggest just putting this into debhelper rather than making it a >>> separate package. >>> >> Is there any advantage to have it packaged? >> >> AIUI, you have to add a build-dependency anyway and change at least one >> line in the debian/rules to call dh-autoreconf. Well, that line could >> simply call autoreconf (or whatever) which even makes debian/rules clearer. > > The difference is that dh_autoreconf calls autoreconf and stores a list > of the changes and the changed files are then removed in the clean > target. If you just call autoreconf, the changes end up in the diff; > and this is not what we want. >
I do use autoreconf and I don't have these changes in my diff. IMO, a backup/restore script (where you specify the list of files to backup) may be more useful. It would be called before build and when cleaning. Cheers, -- Mehdi Dogguy مهدي الدڤي http://dogguy.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-wnpp-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4bb351ea.3000...@dogguy.org
