Stefano Zacchiroli a écrit :
You should fix that, so that "clean" does not remove those files (or, alternatively, you should ensure those files are not in the upstream tarball).
Thanks for the detailed explanation. It was background material that I missed.
I'd rather not modify the upstream source package directly because I'm not really comfortable with it, and also because it doesn't seem that clean to me. using debian/clean was suggested as an alternative to patches, since patches aren't really supposed to have as a purpose to simply clean upstream source files.
But given what has been said, it seems to me that creating a patch that cleans these files is the cleanest way I can come with.
Alternative, cleaner solutions are welcome, since patches are the solutions I'll be adopting otherwise.
As an additional advantage in fixing that, git-buildpackage will stop complaining; take that as a reward :)
I will definitely take that as a reward.
Cheers.
Thanks.
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