On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 1:05 PM, Ben Finney <[email protected]> wrote: > Adam <[email protected]> writes: > >> >> I think "setup.py clean" (which gets called by dh_auto_clean) really >> should just delete SOURCES.txt. I just filed a bug upstream against >> python-distribute: >> >> http://bitbucket.org/tarek/distribute/issue/122/setuppy-clean-should-delete-sourcestxt > > I disagree; the ‘SOURCES.txt’ file is distributed as source, so > automatically deleting that file is too much magic. Rather, the build > process should not modify the source files at all.
This seems to me to be the same situation as files like configure, generated Makefiles, and so on; the build process should regenerate the generated files, and ideally the files that are (re)generated by the build process would not be shipped by upstream at all. -- mithrandi, i Ainil en-Balandor, a faer Ambar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
