JACK and unclean upstream tarballs

[Reinhard Tartler]

Felipe Sateler <felipe at sateler.com> writes:

> Upstream apparently doesn't run make distclean on their tarballs. Running 
> debian/rules clean leaves a dirty git repo, which makes it annoying for 
> testing stuff. 

Do they miss that by accident or on purpose? Can you ask them about that
so that the next release is cleaner?

> How do you propose to handle this? We can either add a .gitignore file, or just 
> remove said files from the master branch. I prefer the second one, since then 
> the starting point is guaranteed to be clean. Having a clean start point also 
> ensures that bugs like 527335 don't happen.

For the short term, I'd suggest adding the offending files to
debian/clean, so that they get removed by dh_clean. Then run debclean
and check if all removed files are really unnecessary. If all goes well
and the package remains buildable, commit these changes.

For the long term, it would be easier to work with clean tarballs.

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