A thought: John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, May 31, 2005 at 01:45:16AM +0300, Kari Pahula wrote: > > 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. > > If you are not trying to eliminate these files from the Debian source > packages, then I am at a loss as to why you would be trying to > eliminate them from the darcs repository. That strikes me as > violating the whole idea of the repository, which keeps a history of > the Debian source as it evolves through time. > > Perhaps I'm still missing something?
I'm sure you are aware that Darcs really hates autogenerated files in its repositories: configure scripts can easily trigger the infamous very bad merge behaviour. On the other hand, Debian packages are encouraged to include autotools-generated configure and Makefile.in (etc.) in the package in order to avoid the mess that is created by autotools version mismatch if they are run at build time. Perhaps darcs is not a good version control system for Debian packages after all? -- Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho, Debian developer http://kaijanaho.info/antti-juhani/blog/en/debian
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