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Re: Best practice for cleaning autotools-generated files?



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On 2011-03-15 23:55, Neil Williams wrote:
> Using autotools with Debian native packages can be a real PITA and
> source format 3.0 just gets it wrong mostly. Most other tools also get
> it wrong, even svn-buildpackage. If I knew how to fix it reliably -
> *without* putting huge amounts of stuff into the VCS or massively
> extending the build by not using make dist (and missing errors by not
> using make distcheck), I'd stop using my own hand-crafted scripts to
> release these projects. Makes me wish I could pretend that these really
> are upstream packages.
> 

While I have not used it myself, it seems dpkg-source can (partly) help
you here by using the "extend-diff-ignore" option in
debian/source/options.[1]

~Niels

[1]
http://raphaelhertzog.com/2011/01/28/3-ways-to-not-clutter-your-debian-source-package-with-autogenerated-files/

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