On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 10:16:41AM +0100, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
On 2011-01-12 22:04, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 09:14:40PM +0100, Alessio Treglia wrote:The clean target in debian/rules needs some work:Looks like new upstream "release" ships with automade files.Then sure it needs changes: The previous "release" needed them generated during build, and thus - for VCS sanity - carefully cleaned up as well.See commit 7329d.ah, i thought the reason for all this was, that some patches (autoconf_removed_sources.patch and system_gsm.patch) will modify configure.ac and Makefile.am, so the autotools have to be re-run.since running autotools will then modify some files, i don't see a clean solution to make the "clean" target indeed restore upstream.what do you propose? - - patch configure/Makefile.in instead of configure.ac/Makefile.am? - - add a pre-configure target that creates backups of the to-be-modified files and restores them on clean? - - ...
Patches to autogenerated files might be applied in wrong order, and thus potentially cause semi-random FTBFS.
Yes, I would preserve the to-be-regenerated files, and restore in clean.See liblrdf for an example of doing that tightly. Or tell me if you have ideas to do it more elegantly :-)
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