Confusing "ancient-autotools-helper-file" error
Dear list,
I am trying to pack the "pywcs" package, (Python wrapper for wcslib; ITP
<http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=641635>) which
contains a convienence copy of the wcslib.
As required, I ignore the convienence copy of wcslib and use the
version packaged for Debian. The convienence copy remains unbuilt.
However, if I run "lintian", I get the error message
E: python-pywcs source: ancient-autotools-helper-file wcslib/config/config.guess 2003-10-03
E: python-pywcs source: ancient-autotools-helper-file wcslib/config/config.sub 2003-08-18
which is completely irrelevant for me (since these files are not used in
the build process). I added them to the "clean" file:
------------------8<-------------------------
wcslib/config/config.guess
wcslib/config/config.sub
------------------8<-------------------------
but the build log of debuild states
dpkg-source: warning: ignoring deletion of file wcslib/config/config.sub
dpkg-source: warning: ignoring deletion of file wcslib/config/config.guess
and lintian continues complaining about these files.
Why is this the case and how can I remove this error message?
Best regards
Ole
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