Cleaning/restoring autoconf generated files

2006-09-05 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, I was examining #385980 (grub - clean target does not undo changes). What is happening here is that the build system is running autotools (aclocal; automake; autoconf) which are rewriting some of the files distributed by upstream (which are also autotools generated but by an older version

Re: Cleaning/restoring autoconf generated files

2006-09-05 Thread Matej Vela
Kapil Hari Paranjape <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I was wondering whether Debian policy regarding the 'clean' target > is to be interpreted as applying to the autotools generated files as > well. (As currently stated it would appear to be so). > > If so then the following alternate approaches wou

Re: Cleaning/restoring autoconf generated files

2006-09-05 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
On Tue, 05 Sep 2006, Matej Vela wrote: > Kapil Hari Paranjape <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I was wondering whether Debian policy regarding the 'clean' target > > is to be interpreted as applying to the autotools generated files as > > well. (As currently stated it would appear to be so). > >

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2006-09-05 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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Re: Cleaning/restoring autoconf generated files

2006-09-05 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Tue, 05 Sep 2006, Kapil Hari Paranjape wrote: > I was wondering whether Debian policy regarding the 'clean' target > is to be interpreted as applying to the autotools generated files as > well. (As currently stated it would appear to be so). Many of us read the policy for "clean" to "generate a

Re: Cleaning/restoring autoconf generated files

2006-09-05 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Tue, 05 Sep 2006, Kapil Hari Paranjape wrote: > On Tue, 05 Sep 2006, Matej Vela wrote: > > Kapil Hari Paranjape <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > I was wondering whether Debian policy regarding the 'clean' target > > > is to be interpreted as applying to the autotools generated files as > >