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Re: automatic autoconf config file updating



Quoting Jonas Smedegaard (2014-04-18 00:32:23)
> 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.

Perhaps better explanation:

You are right that doing a) and b) on same package makes no sense. I do 
either a) or b) on each package, however.


 - Jonas

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