Re: Editing the sources in "debian/rules clean"

2008-01-01 Thread Florian Weimer
* Miriam Ruiz: > 2007/12/26, Florian Weimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> This the issue, but I think it could be more widespread. It turns out >> that the package in question (tar) was last uploaded before the >> autotools were finalized for etch, so the copying is not a no-op in this >> particular ca

Re: Editing the sources in "debian/rules clean"

2007-12-31 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 28/12/07 at 01:38 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > Le Wed, Dec 26, 2007 at 08:40:22PM +0100, Adeodato Simó a écrit : > > * Miriam Ruiz [Wed, 26 Dec 2007 19:47:52 +0100]: > > > > > (I personally prefer to > > > do that in configure, and to remove config.{sub,guess,log,status} in > > > clean, so th

Re: Editing the sources in "debian/rules clean"

2007-12-28 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Adeodato Simó <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [071226 20:40]: > I wish everybody did it that way. I'm also happy to see that it's now > how dh-make will do it, good. Even better is in my eyes to look if it is possible to get rid of those files alltogether. I'd guess the vast majority of packages doesn't rea

Re: Editing the sources in "debian/rules clean"

2007-12-27 Thread Russ Allbery
Reinhard Tartler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Consider the case that you create a patch for a package in unstable on a > stable system. The autotools-dev package on stable is definitely older > than in unstable, so you always downgrade your version of config.*. > This seems to be a rather typical

Re: Editing the sources in "debian/rules clean"

2007-12-27 Thread Reinhard Tartler
Petter Reinholdtsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [Florian Weimer] >> It has come to my attention that a number of packages edit source files >> (i.e. non-generated files in the source directory tree) in the "clean" >> target of debian/rules. > > Do you have any example packages to mention? I've

Re: Editing the sources in "debian/rules clean"

2007-12-27 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Wed, Dec 26, 2007 at 08:40:22PM +0100, Adeodato Simó a écrit : > * Miriam Ruiz [Wed, 26 Dec 2007 19:47:52 +0100]: > > > (I personally prefer to > > do that in configure, and to remove config.{sub,guess,log,status} in > > clean, so that diff files are cleaner, > > I wish everybody did it that w

Re: Editing the sources in "debian/rules clean"

2007-12-26 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Miriam Ruiz [Wed, 26 Dec 2007 19:47:52 +0100]: > (I personally prefer to > do that in configure, and to remove config.{sub,guess,log,status} in > clean, so that diff files are cleaner, I wish everybody did it that way. I'm also happy to see that it's now how dh-make will do it, good. Cheers,

Re: Editing the sources in "debian/rules clean"

2007-12-26 Thread Miriam Ruiz
2007/12/26, Florian Weimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > This the issue, but I think it could be more widespread. It turns out > that the package in question (tar) was last uploaded before the > autotools were finalized for etch, so the copying is not a no-op in this > particular case (but I hope that th

Re: Editing the sources in "debian/rules clean"

2007-12-26 Thread Florian Weimer
* Petter Reinholdtsen: > [Florian Weimer] >> It has come to my attention that a number of packages edit source files >> (i.e. non-generated files in the source directory tree) in the "clean" >> target of debian/rules. > > Do you have any example packages to mention? I've seen some updating > of t

Re: Editing the sources in "debian/rules clean"

2007-12-26 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Florian Weimer] > It has come to my attention that a number of packages edit source files > (i.e. non-generated files in the source directory tree) in the "clean" > target of debian/rules. Do you have any example packages to mention? I've seen some updating of the config.* files in the clean ta