On Tuesday 29 April 2008 3:25:21 pm Vincent Bernat wrote: > OoO En ce début de soirée du mardi 29 avril 2008, vers 21:21, Andres > > Mejia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> disait: > > As you all might know, rerunning autotools during a build of a package > > will leave a substantial amount of files modified outside of the debian > > directory, and thus will increase the size of the diff file. > > > > This approach doesn't comply with Debian policy in regards to the "clean" > > target. I'm interested in knowing any solutions for this problem for > > packages that rerun autotools during build. A solution I've thought of > > was to backup/restore the generated files during a "build" or "clean" of > > a package. > > > > I've attached a script that could be used to backup and restore generated > > *.in files back to the state they were in from the source tarball. > > You can just remove the generated files in the clean target. It will not > appear in the diff. You will get some warnings telling you that > suppressed files are ignored.
I thought of that too, but some time ago, there were some sponsors who wouldn't sponsor my packages because I took this approach. -- Regards, Andres -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
