Kapil Hari Paranjape wrote: > Removal of the autogenerated files *is* what the "clean" target > already does. The problem is that upstream source comes with its own > set of autogenerated files and these get removed/replaced during the > autoconf run.
That doesn't make any sense. If the files are removed by the clean
target, they will not appear in the diff; this bug report shows them in
the diff.
> I read that and have since then been going through my own packages
> trying to implement it. Since upstream is often not careful enough
> about "distclean", this requirement is sometimes rather hard to
> implement.
To the contrary, it's trivial, you just remove them in the clean rule.
dbs is a complete red herring in this discussion.
Here's a patch to grub that fixes this bug:
diff -ur old/grub-0.97/debian/rules grub-0.97/debian/rules
--- old/grub-0.97/debian/rules 2006-09-21 22:36:30.000000000 -0400
+++ grub-0.97/debian/rules 2006-09-21 22:36:17.000000000 -0400
@@ -181,7 +181,7 @@
-( cd docs && rm -rf grub multiboot )
# remove files that will be change due our automake and autoconf
rebuilding
- -rm -f $(find . -name 'Makefile.in' -o \
+ -rm -f $(shell find . -name 'Makefile.in' -o \
-name 'aclocal.m4' -o \
-name 'configure')
--
see shy jo
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