Quoting Russ Allbery (2014-04-17 20:22:32) > Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk> writes: > >> Personally I would then silence the lintian warning, because... > >> a) I dislike dh-autoreconf: It removes changed files which breaks my >> workflow where disappearing files are treated as an error. >> b) I prefer stripping automade files from source tarball, to avoid the >> (IMO required) hassle of both verifying that we also ship proper >> sources for them, and track copyright/licensing for them. > > You realize these contradict each other, right? If you strip the > automade files from the source tarball, then dh-autoreconf will no > longer delete changed files, since the files that it deletes are > exactly the files that you're stripping. > > So unless I'm missing something, it seems like you should continue to > do (b) if you want to do that... and then also use dh-autoreconf. Yup, I realize that - thanks for noticing :-) I am involved in maintaining 350+ packages, and only for some of them I have raised the bar of perfection to the level of stripping pesudo-source. I.e. *nowadays* I dislike dh-autoreconf and prefer stripping automade files. - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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