On Sat, 08 Nov 2014, Ian Jackson wrote: > Some packages' clean targets delete files which are actually part of > the source. WTF.
FWIW, instead of complaining about what people are doing in their packages, you could just easily accept that they have good reasons to do so. The usual reason is that those files are regenerated and removing them is the easy way to ensure that the corresponding changes do not end up polluting the .diff.gz (or debian/patches/). Nowadays we have better options to ignore changes on some specific files (with debian/source/options containing extend-diff-ignore=file-to-ignore) but that has not always been the case. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer Support Debian LTS: http://www.freexian.com/services/debian-lts.html Learn to master Debian: http://debian-handbook.info/get/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
