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Re: Ok to use upstream doumentation as-is (i.e. not regenerate)?



On 11-06-05 at 05:39am, Vincent Bernat wrote:
> 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.

True for a normal build.  Not true when building from git.

Yes, there are other possible approaches than restoring (i.e. adding 
them to .gitignore) but simply deleteing is not enough.


Regards,

 - Jonas

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