On Wed, 2013-09-18 at 14:16 +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Julien Cristau writes ("Re: Status of dgit (good for NMUs and fast-forwarding Debian branches)"):
> > No, I mean the upstream tarball contains autotools-generated files that
> > debian/rules deletes (and that aren't in my, or upstream's, git tree).
> > dpkg-source ignores removals when generating the debian diff, so they're
> > extracted by dpkg-source -x, but since the first step after that is
> > pretty much always debian/rules clean, they're irrelevant.
>
> If your source package contains the files, and your git tree does too,
> then you will find that debian/rules clean generates a dirty git tree.
> How do you deal with this problem at the moment ?
[...]
Example from sgt-puzzles:
override_dh_auto_clean:
! [ -f Makefile ] || $(MAKE) clean
$(MAKE) -f Makefile.doc clean
if [ -d .git ]; then \
git checkout HEAD $(AUTOGEN_FILES); \
else \
rm -f $(AUTOGEN_FILES); \
fi
rm -f po
dh_clean debian/substvars gamedesc.txt version2.def
(I'm not claiming this is a good example).
Ben.
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Ben Hutchings
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