Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Didn't know the name for _darcs. Would it be possible to get a list from > dpkg?
@Dpkg::Source::Package::tar_ignore_default_pattern is a list in dpkg, but it has a lot of other junk in it including things like *.o that dh_clean needs to clean. > > Another approach could be to only delete known autom4te files > > from autom4te.cache (output.? , requests, traces.?) , and empty > > autom4te.cache directories. > > That would work for .hg. Don't know about the other VCSes. > > ls .hg/store/data/upstream/src/pmi/smpd/autom4te.cache > output.0.i requests.i traces.0.i > > But not for quilt as it creates .pc/<patch name>/<path>/<file>. But it > might be ok to require there are no stupid files in the patch series. > > As a sidenode would -X.pc/ skip that dir? Yes. Exporting DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=.hg:.pc could also be used in your build environemnt. That variable also deals with problems like .hg directories accidentially getting copied into the binary by over-broad make install rules. -- see shy jo
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