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Re: build depends on auto{conf,make}



On Sun, Nov 25, 2001 at 02:56:26PM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 25, 2001 at 01:29:18PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote:

> > Do you actually need to call auto*?  Normally packages just use the
> > generated files upstream provides unless there's some particular reason
> > not to.

> yes, I need to call auto* because the sources are from a cvs repository
> on which the generated files aren't stored.

In that case why not include the generated files in the orig.tar.gz?  It
would correspond most closely to what an upstream tarball would contain
if one did exist and would keep the Debian diff clean.

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