On Mon, May 30, 2005 at 05:24:42PM -0500, John Goerzen wrote: > I'm not sure this is really a bug. If the file is truly boring, then > the clean target in debian/rules should be removing it, and it should > never be in the .orig.tar.gz to begin with. Am I missing something > here?
Standard debian/rules clean, with autotoolized programs, calls the distclean target from the package's own Makefiles. That leaves all those files lying around, even though they are generated files. That's autotool's idea of distclean; something that you can build without autotools. Too bad that idea fits somewhat badly for packaging such as Debian's, as it makes for larger diffs if there's any need to run autotools again. Or, as in this case, larger repositories (too). In principle those generated files could well be removed in debian/rules clean. But that would make every package using darcs-buildpackage have a repackaged upstream source orig.tar.gz. >From what I've read from the developer's reference, that should be avoided if possible. See for yourself: http://www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/ch-best-pkging-practices.en.html#s-bpp-origtargz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
