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 seen some updating
> of the config.* files in the clean target, and this seem to be fairly
> safe.
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 usecase when preparing security
updates.
I can only suggest to make this check conditional, like in the following
make snippet:
ifneq (,$(wildcard /usr/share/misc/config.guess))
config.guess:
@echo updateing config.guess
cp -f /usr/share/misc/config.guess config.guess
endif
ifneq (,$(wildcard /usr/share/misc/config.sub))
config.sub: /usr/share/misc/config.sub
@echo updateing config.sub and config.guess
cp -f /usr/share/misc/config.sub config.sub
endif
But even with that, I don't think that you can rely on the timestamps
being okay for using it safely in the clean target.
--
Gruesse/greetings,
Reinhard Tartler, KeyID 945348A4
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