Gavin Smith wrote: > I found the change was made in commit 1db4e2d2fd18b (2024-07-26) on the > master branch, which change I then propagated onto the release/7.1 branch > as part of other build system fixes.
Commit 1db4e2d2fd18b is on the release/7.1 branch. The corresponding commit on the master branch is d80f36fca1ab2ebe3bb27f17c9fb92025a2c532b. I was not in CC of mails that discussed this. 'maintainer-clean' and 'distclean' are defined in https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/Standard-Targets.html Basically: - If a file is in the tarball, "make distclean" should preserve it. - If a file is not in the tarball, but is created by "make", either "make mostlyclean", "make clean", or "make distclean" should remove it. Bruno
