OoO En ce début de soirée du mardi 29 avril 2008, vers 21:21, Andres Mejia <mcitadel@gmail.com> disait: > As you all might know, rerunning autotools during a build of a package will > leave a substantial amount of files modified outside of the debian directory, > and thus will increase the size of the diff file. > This approach doesn't comply with Debian policy in regards to the "clean" > target. I'm interested in knowing any solutions for this problem for packages > that rerun autotools during build. A solution I've thought of was to > backup/restore the generated files during a "build" or "clean" of a package. > I've attached a script that could be used to backup and restore generated *.in > files back to the state they were in from the source tarball. You can just remove the generated files in the clean target. It will not appear in the diff. You will get some warnings telling you that suppressed files are ignored. -- I WILL NOT CARVE GODS I WILL NOT CARVE GODS I WILL NOT CARVE GODS -+- Bart Simpson on chalkboard in episode 8F11
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