Re: Confusing "ancient-autotools-helper-file" error

[Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>]

* Ole Streicher <debian-devel@liska.ath.cx>, 2011-10-17, 13:42:
> E: python-pywcs source: ancient-autotools-helper-file wcslib/config/config.guess 2003-10-03
> E: python-pywcs source: ancient-autotools-helper-file wcslib/config/config.sub 2003-08-18
>
> which is completely irrelevant for me (since these files are not used 
> in the build process). I added them to the "clean" file:
>
> ------------------8<-------------------------
> wcslib/config/config.guess
> wcslib/config/config.sub
> ------------------8<-------------------------

This is not what the debian/clean file is (normally) for. debian/clean 
is used by dh_clean, which is typically called in the "clean" target. 
You should not assume that this target is run before the package is 
built, even though dpkg-buildpackage does this by default.

> how can I remove this error message?

Just add lintian overrides for these tags.

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Jakub Wilk