Re: EXTRA_PROGRAMS vs. clean

While we're one that topic, I don't understand why cleaning the tags is hooked to distclean instead of clean.

EXTRA_PROGRAMS vs. clean

Sorry if this is a faq, but I have found nothing convincing, excepted this unanswered message: http://sourceware.org/ml/bug-automake/2001/msg00391.html and http://sources.redhat.com/ml/bug-automake/2003/msg00311.html where adl seems to agree it should be cleaned. I don't understand