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Re: purpose of MANIFEST files (was: XSF revision 238)



Hi Branden,

On Tue, 24 Jun 2003, Branden Robinson wrote:

> 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.

So your plan is to remove them, right?

Personally I would rather prefer to keep them in place, manly because I am
paranoid and due to the complexity of the packages one check more (that is
already in place) is not a bad thing and it doesn't really require a lot
of resources to keep it updated.

Thanks
Fabio

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