On Tue, 05 Sep 2006, Matej Vela wrote: > Kapil Hari Paranjape <kapil@imsc.res.in> writes: > > > I was wondering whether Debian policy regarding the 'clean' target > > is to be interpreted as applying to the autotools generated files as > > well. (As currently stated it would appear to be so). > > > 3. Remove generated files in 'clean', which will cause > dpkg-source to ignore them (although with warnings). This > is a popular approach for config.guess/config.sub at least > (e.g. /usr/share/doc/autotools-dev/examples/rules.gz). I wonder ... policy says that clean must---*undo* the changes made by 'build' and 'binary'---(my emphasis). So removing all the generated files may not be acceptable if different versions of these had been packaged by upstream. Regards, Kapil. --
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