Re: Bug#397939: Proposal: Packages must have a working clean target
Stephen Gran <sgran@debian.org> writes:
> This one time, at band camp, Russ Allbery said:
>> As previously discussed, it's very difficult to comply with this
>> directive as written if one is following the autotools-dev
>> recommendations for how to regenerate the various autotools files.
>> Before putting too much weight on this directive, I'd really like to
>> find some way of reconciling that, since right now it's a
>> frequently-violated dictate of Policy.
> That's probably a bug in the autotools-dev recommendation, rather than a
> problem with policy, though. For handling config.{sub,guess}, the
> freeradius package has a reasonable method for cleaning up after itself.
> For rerunning autotools at build time, well, I tend to think that's a
> mistake, but we've had that fight before and I'm not really interested
> in reopening it.
Well, by contending that this is a bug in the autotools-dev
recommendation, you're reopening that fight. :)
Really not reopening the fight means providing some acceptable path for
those who would really prefer not to create massive Debian diffs and, more
importantly, to test building the package from *source* rather than an
intermediate source form partly generated by the Debian developer.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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