Joey Hess wrote: > Ben Collins wrote: > > By automatic I meant that assuming that the diff between the foo-1.0/ > > directory and the foo-1.0.orig/ directory is what every package wants is > > bad. The configure.in case is one such problem along with other generated > > files (such as .y). So for the packaging system to assume that fact is > > wrong and part of the reason a lot of the larger package maintaines have > > moved on to non-standard systems like glibc and gcc have. It is restrictive > > to a lot of things. > > I don't really understand their situations, my simple fix in these cases > rm -f configure foo.y
Er, foo.c -- see shy jo

