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Re: direct-changes-in-diff-but-no-patch-system foo.egg-info/SOURCES.txt



Ben Finney wrote:

> Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org> writes:
> 
> > Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au> (15/01/2010):
> > > Now, this is a “pedantic”-level tag, but it does seem valid: the
> > > SOURCES.txt file is in fact modified from the original upstream
> > > source.
> >
> > Just rm it in clean?
> 
> But that would also result in a change from the original upstream
> source. No?

No. dpkg-source just spits a warning when a file is deleted from
original source. This is what I did in (python-)execnet.

> > > Can I prevent this from happening, perhaps by an option to the
> > > Setuptools procedure? If not, can I recover from this result during
> > > the Debian packaging?
> >
> > IIRC, that setuptools stuff should just be able to recreate that file
> > if it doesn't exist?
> 
> But AIUI, the modifications are needed in the resulting installation.

SOURCES.txt gets recreated during build process (by setup.py). So it is
in the .deb.

--Adam

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