Enrico Zini <[email protected]> writes: > The way I figured so far is this: > > 1. git-import-dsc --pristine-tar > 2. branch off upstream and create a topic branch > 3. do my changes and test them > 4. commit only the files that I have changed, and not the files that > autotools has regenerated. This could be a bit cumbersome, but it > can be automated with something like: > git checkout aclocal.m4 configure `git ls-files -c |grep .in\$`
I think if you add a .gitignore file on topic branches that modify the Autoconf files. I think that will do the same thing for you. > When packaging, I'm undecided on these two options: > 1. Build-depend on automake and let it rebuilt itself at 'make' time Definitely the right solution IMO. This is what I do with all of my packages. -- Russ Allbery ([email protected]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> _______________________________________________ vcs-pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/vcs-pkg-discuss
