Re: [Pkg-ocaml-maint-commits] [SCM] OCaml packaging branch, master, updated. debian/3.10.2-3-7-gfef0417
On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 21:47:04 +0200, Stéphane Glondu wrote:
> Julien Cristau a écrit :
>>> The following commit has been merged in the master branch:
>>> commit c8bdd9e0fc12634749a2d0c7c5f678c49f7747dc
>>> Author: Stephane Glondu <steph@glondu.net>
>>> Date: Tue Jul 8 13:56:53 2008 +0200
>>>
>>> Copy config.{sub,guess} in pre-config phase instead of clean
>>>
>> Why?
>
> Because in clean, it causes git-buildpackage/debclean sequence to
> diverge from the git tree.
That sounds like a reason to not keep it in git at all (so remove these
files in debian/rules clean, and use the autotools-dev copies for the
build).
> Another reason would be because it is somehow
> an unannounced (i.e. not in debian/patches) patch to upstream sources.
>
I don't understand that.
Cheers,
Julien
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