Bug#575938: ITP: dh-autoreconf -- debhelper add-on to call autoreconf and clean up after the build

[Mehdi Dogguy <mehdi@dogguy.org>]

Julian Andres Klode wrote:
> A backup and restore approach is a completely different and more
> complicated (in I/O sense) way than just deleting the files; e.g.
> for a single file:
> 

… except that they do not operate on the same set of files. dh_backup's
list would be a lot smaller than dh_autoreconf's one. Besides, dh_backup
(or whatever its name is) could also delete files upon request ("dh_backup
--remove" would then be dh_autoreconf minus "autoreconf").

>   dh_backup:
>    1. mkdir()  - Create the backup directory

you can use then "debian/" directory here (provided you add a suffix to
backup's name). And, dh_autoreconf also creates a directory for excluded
files (if any). So, I don't think that this part is really relevant for
the comparison.

I think that all arguments in favour or against have been mentioned. I
don't have anything to add. If it really makes you happy to have this
package, then so be it :)

Cheers,

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