Package: dpkg Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-Cc: Michael Biebl <bi...@debian.org>, debian-devel@lists.debian.org
On Mon, 2023-08-14 at 22:09 +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: > I received a couple of bug reports against packages I (co) maintain > regarding this issue and having a quick look, quite a few fail due to > python scripts being run during the build and creating a __pycache__ > directory. dpkg-source already ignores various paths for the diff when building source packages, for example ".git", ".svn", "CVS", "*~", ... Maybe $diff_ignore_default_regex should just be extended to include "__pycache__" as well and these would be non-issues. Ansgar
