Bug#284967: debian-policy: should not ship generated files in source archive, and should clean them from the tree
Package: debian-policy
Version: 3.6.1.1
Severity: normal
Here's an IRC transcript that covers the subject.
03:49PM|<Overfiend> hey Manoj?
03:50PM|<Manoj> Overfiend: yeah?
03:50PM|<Overfiend> I think I found a bug in the debian-policy package,
as in the packaging itself. Got a moment to talk about it?
03:50PM|<Manoj> sure
03:50PM|<Overfiend> policy.{pdf,ps,tpt,txt} are generated files, but
ship as part of the source.
03:50PM|<Overfiend> Trouble is, changing policy.sgml changes those in
a way that clean can't revert.
03:51PM|<Overfiend> This means debian/rules clean doesn't truly revert
debian/rules build.
03:51PM|<Manoj> Overfiend: Hmm. I don't know why we ship the generated
files in the first place
03:51PM|<Manoj> I am of a mind to change all this post Sarge
03:51PM|<Overfiend> Manoj: I don't either. I was going to recommend
dropping them from the next release.
03:51PM|<Overfiend> As well as improving the clean rule to clean them.
03:52PM|<Overfiend> but it's pointless to *only* fix the clean rule.
03:52PM|<Overfiend> Manoj: do you want me to file a bug about this?
03:52PM|<Overfiend> I discovered this while preparing a Policy amendment.
03:53PM|<Manoj> Overfiend: please do
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: powerpc (ppc)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.25-powerpc-smp
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
-- no debconf information
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