Changes in config.{sub,guess} and "abort-on-upstream-changes"

Jaromír Mikeš mira.mikes at gmail.com
Thu Feb 17 21:34:27 UTC 2011


2011/2/17 Alessandro Ghedini <al3xbio at gmail.com>:
> On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 08:17:47PM +0100, Jaromír Mikeš wrote:
>> file config.{sub,guess} are modified while running git-buildpackage -S
>> and "abort-on-upstream-changes" in local-options file aborting
>> process.
>> What is right solution for this situation?
>> git://git.debian.org/pkg-multimedia/phat.git
>
> Try adding something like:
>
>    extend-diff-ignore = "(^|/)config.(sub|guess)$"
>
> to debian/source/local-options. It makes dpkg ignore modifications to
> config.{sub,guess} when generating the diff for changes.

This is nice solution, maybe this can be recommended in our wiki.
I can put it there if some general agreement for using this will
exists in team.
What others think?

> It is also a good idea to add autotools-dev to Build-Depends.

I will remove autotools-dev from rules file insted. It looks like it's
not needed.

best regards

mira



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