Re: Editing the sources in "debian/rules clean"
- To: "Miriam Ruiz" <little.miry@gmail.com>
- Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org
- Subject: Re: Editing the sources in "debian/rules clean"
- From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
- Date: Tue, 01 Jan 2008 14:47:40 +0100
- Message-id: <[🔎] 87bq85k683.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de>
- In-reply-to: <4671dd0c0712261047m5f22b778w4ab30f58e346f4c@mail.gmail.com> (Miriam Ruiz's message of "Wed, 26 Dec 2007 19:47:52 +0100")
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* Miriam Ruiz:
> 2007/12/26, Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>:
>> This the issue, but I think it could be more widespread. It turns out
>> that the package in question (tar) was last uploaded before the
>> autotools were finalized for etch, so the copying is not a no-op in this
>> particular case (but I hope that the update does not introduce
>> functional changes).
>
> Well, it seems quite widespread to copy autotools config.sub and
> config.guess files from autotools-dev in clean (I personally prefer to
> do that in configure, and to remove config.{sub,guess,log,status} in
> clean, so that diff files are cleaner, but I guess that might be
> personal taste), are you referring to that, or to something else?
Okay, okay. It's probably a good idea. I'm going to file a bug on
Policy. I've no idea what the language addressing this should look
like, but I think we really should bring Policy closer to existing
practice (and not the other way round, as I first thought).
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