Bug#397939: clean rule behavior underspecified and inconsistent with common practice

2012-09-13 Thread Charles Plessy
In 2006, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote: during the last months i had to review several packages. Quite a number of packages were not buildable two times (eg. unrepresentable changes to source). Most of these packages used svn-buildpackage or cvs-buildpackage. This bug is quite annoying as

Bug#397939: clean rule behavior underspecified and inconsistent with common practice

2012-09-11 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Jonathan Nieder jrnie...@gmail.com [120911 05:45]: during the last months i had to review several packages. Quite a number of packages were not buildable two times (eg. unrepresentable changes to source). Most of these packages used svn-buildpackage or cvs-buildpackage. This bug is quite

Bug#397939: clean rule behavior underspecified and inconsistent with common practice

2012-09-11 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Bernhard R. Link wrote: * Jonathan Nieder jrnie...@gmail.com [120911 05:45]: The requirements in policy for debian/rules clean are very stringent --- to avoid the unrepresentable changes it would be enough to _remove_ the modified (regenerated) files, but

Bug#397939: clean rule behavior underspecified and inconsistent with common practice

2012-09-11 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Tue, 11 Sep 2012, Jonathan Nieder wrote: Bernhard R. Link wrote: * Jonathan Nieder jrnie...@gmail.com [120911 05:45]: The requirements in policy for debian/rules clean are very stringent --- to avoid the unrepresentable changes it would be enough to

Bug#397939: clean rule behavior underspecified and inconsistent with common practice

2012-09-11 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: Still, if any of you would like to do it, please wait a bit. Let's release Wheezy first. I agree that we should not upload any change along these lines to policy in the near future. I disagree that we should not find a consensus about correct behavior and

Bug#397939: clean rule behavior underspecified and inconsistent with common practice

2012-09-11 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Tue, 11 Sep 2012, Jonathan Nieder wrote: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: Still, if any of you would like to do it, please wait a bit. Let's release Wheezy first. I agree that we should not upload any change along these lines to policy in the near future. I disagree that we should

Bug#397939: clean rule behavior underspecified and inconsistent with common practice

2012-09-10 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi, In 2006, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote: during the last months i had to review several packages. Quite a number of packages were not buildable two times (eg. unrepresentable changes to source). Most of these packages used svn-buildpackage or cvs-buildpackage. This bug is quite annoying as one