On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 11:02:28AM +0100, Ian Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Mike Hommey writes ("Re: Bug#362186: minor debian/rules improvements"):
> > On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 06:38:17PM +0100, Ian Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > wrote:
> > > - Calls `about.png.orig' `about.png.upstream' instead so that
> > > it doesn't get removed by things that try to tidy up after
> > > patching, which makes debian/rules clean work properly.
> >
> > What is the problem exactly ?
>
> `.orig' is a suffix used by (amongst other things) patch, when it is
> handling rejected patches. Many tools are set up to automatically
> exclude or delete .orig files, including for example most revision
> control systems.
>
> You may remember me sending you a diff which tidies up the crud left
> over by the Mozilla build system so that debian/rules clean actually
> works; I suspect that the thing that deleted .orig in my environment
> was that change to debian/rules, but it's by no means the only such
> thing.
I remember you talking about that, but I have no recollection of a patch
:-/ Anyways, I've done the work on xulrunner and will apply the patch
soon to firefox...
> Using .orig for moving about.png aside is asking for trouble, I think.
I got your point.
Thanks
Mike
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