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purpose of MANIFEST files (was: XSF revision 238)



On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 11:35:36AM +0900, ISHIKAWA Mutsumi wrote:
>  3) Purpose of MANIFESTs (I believe) are checking what kind of files
>     will be installed under debian/tmp, and  *.install files or
>     something updates are needed.
> 
>       I think it is not good idea to edit MANIFESTs directly if their
>     changes are not completely clear. I've committed(and I'll commit)
>     only after my build checking are done (or someone checked to build
>     and send MANIFEST to XSF).

This subject merits a separate subthread.

I originally came up with the MANIFEST thing as a means of doing what
you described, and also as a simplistic method of forcing the build to
fail if something didn't get built.

These days, which dh_install's --list-missing flag, MANIFESTs may have
outlived their usefulness, and it may suffice to have a list of files we
deliberately don't want to ship.

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