Control: reassign -1 dh-autoreconf Hi!
On Mon, 2026-07-20 at 19:14:09 +0300, Martin-Éric Racine wrote: > Package: dpkg-dev > Version: 1.23.7 > Severity: normal > X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected] > 'dpkg-source --commit' should always exclude changes made by > dh_autoreconf unless explicitly told to include them. The files affected by dh_autoreconf operation are dynamic, and not even dh_autoreconf knows about them beforehand. It currently tracks the state of the files before and after execution to be able to check what changed. Adding support for this in dpkg-source would imply having to use internal files and implementation details from dh_autoreconf, which seems wrong. If this needs to be supported, then dh_autoreconf could instead temporarily add the files to ignore into debian/source/local-options (and then perhaps clean that up after restoring the state?). Of course that would mean that such file being tracked in a VCS could end up being committed, but that does not seem so bad either, the main problem being that the list might changed depending on the autotools version installed. If the VCS concerns from the above example implementation would be considered unacceptable, we could maybe add some interface for dpkg-source to use, for ephemeral ignores (just within the worktree), although I'm not sure how that would look like. And then make that new interface a blocker for this report. Thanks, Guillem
