Re: Removing parts of upstream tar-ball, parsers, autobuilding

[Thibaut Paumard <paumard@users.sourceforge.net>]

Le 13 déc. 07 à 14:33, Y Giridhar Appaji Nag a écrit :

> Hello World!,

Hi,

> I have a bunch of questions:
>
> 1. I have an upstream source tar-ball that accidentally includes some
> files that are generated (and cleaned when a make distclean is issued)
> using the build system, and it is not necessary that I include those
> files in the orig.tar.gz file.  These files are not binary files.
>
> Now, the best thing to do would be to copy the upstream tar-ball as-is
> to orig.tar.gz and have a patch that removes these files (this will
> result in a big diff).  However, is it OK to create an orig.tar.gz  
> file
> based on the upstream tar-ball with these files removed?  Do  
> maintainers
> create a new orig.tar.gz based on the upstream tar-ball and use it  
> (even
> in the non pkg-modified-to-be-dfsg case)?

I tend to move those files to a safe place in the configure rule and  
put them back in place in the clean rule. It's often awkward, but  
that ensures that what is in the diff is meaningful.

It's just my personal way of doing things, I'd be happy to have the  
opinions of others on it.

Regards, Thibaut.