liblscp -packaging

[James Cowgill]

On 23/11/16 22:15, Jaromír Mikeš wrote:
> 2016-11-23 22:47 GMT+01:00 James Cowgill <jcowgill at debian.org>:
>> On 16/11/16 08:02, Jaromír Mikeš wrote:
>>> 2016-11-15 23:42 GMT+01:00 James Cowgill <jcowgill at debian.org>:
>>>> On 15/11/16 12:28, Ondrej Novy wrote:
>>>>> 2016-11-15 11:47 GMT+01:00 Jaromír Mikeš <mira.mikes at gmail.com>:
>>>>>> after building liblscp some files gets deleted
>>>>>
>>>>> i would use extend-diff-ignore in d/source/options, because it looks
>>>>> like "just cache". Maybe upstream should remove this files from release too.
>>>>
>>>> I don't think that option is applicable here. dpkg-source by default
>>>> already ignores deleted files which are present in the orig tarball.
>>>> There's nothing needed to get dpkg-source to work.
>>>>
>>>> I'm not sure how you'd get git-buildpackage to ignore just this
>>>> directory though. Usually I just ignore stuff like this and 'git
>>>> checkout --' whenever I need to use gbp. Try and get upstream to remove
>>>> it in the next release.
>>>
>>> thank you!
>>> liblscp ready is for upload now.
>>
>> A few comments (and sorry I've been quite busy this past week):
>>
>> I don't understand why you have now decided to repack the source. Why do
>> you need to remove autom4te.cache? The build works fine even with it.
> 
> I have been in contact with upstream and asked him to remove this dir
> in future release ...
> The answer was ... something like ... "I am ok with this on opensuse
> ... so I don't care"
> Then I think is better for us to take care of this issue this way now
> and in future.

So why do you need to remove this directory in the first place?

James

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