Re: Files outside debian directory in diff

[Andres Mejia <mcitadel@gmail.com>]

On Tuesday 29 April 2008 3:25:21 pm Vincent Bernat wrote:
> 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 thought of that too, but some time ago, there were some sponsors who 
wouldn't sponsor my packages because I took this approach.

-- 
Regards,
Andres