On Sat, 4 Jun 2011 21:54:11 +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
What I do is use upstream provided tarballs, then put aside autotools-generated files, then autogenerate myself, and in the clean rule put back the upstream-provided files (because I want not only minimal required build routines idempotent but also building with git-buildpackage).
In the clean rules, you can just delete those autogenerated files.