On Tue, Sep 03, 2024 at 08:05:24PM +0200, Bruno Haible wrote: > 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.
Sorry, my mistake. > 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. Yes, but the question is whether the file should be in the tarball or not.
