Bug#385980: Not a bug?

[Joey Hess]

> I this raised the question on debian-qa and the opinion there seemed
> to be that the "clean" target not be faulted for removing such files.

That's not how I read the short thread; you got one suggestion to remove the
autogenerated files in the clean target (a suggestion I agree with), and one
response verifying that the method you proposed using to deal with it would
work.

FWIW, policy says:

    `clean'
          This must undo any effects that the `build' and `binary' targets
          may have had, except that it should leave alone any output files
          created in the parent directory by a run of a `binary' target.

Note the "must" which is presumably why Bastian filed this bug as serious,
although I don't actually agree that it's release critical for a package
to minimise its diff.

-- 
see shy jo
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