Quoting Jonas Smedegaard (2014-04-18 00:32:23) > Quoting Russ Allbery (2014-04-17 20:22:32) >> Jonas Smedegaard <d...@jones.dk> writes: >> >>> Personally I would then silence the lintian warning, because... >> >>> a) I dislike dh-autoreconf: It removes changed files which breaks >>> my workflow where disappearing files are treated as an error. >>> b) I prefer stripping automade files from source tarball, to avoid >>> the (IMO required) hassle of both verifying that we also ship >>> proper sources for them, and track copyright/licensing for >>> them. >> >> You realize these contradict each other, right? If you strip the >> automade files from the source tarball, then dh-autoreconf will no >> longer delete changed files, since the files that it deletes are >> exactly the files that you're stripping. >> >> So unless I'm missing something, it seems like you should continue to >> do (b) if you want to do that... and then also use dh-autoreconf. > > Yup, I realize that - thanks for noticing :-) > > I am involved in maintaining 350+ packages, and only for some of them > I have raised the bar of perfection to the level of stripping > pesudo-source. I.e. *nowadays* I dislike dh-autoreconf and prefer > stripping automade files.
Perhaps better explanation: You are right that doing a) and b) on same package makes no sense. I do either a) or b) on each package, however. - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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