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

[Jaromír Mikeš]

2011/2/17 Felipe Sateler <fsateler at debian.org>:
> 2011/2/17 Jaromír Mikeš <mira.mikes at gmail.com>:
>> 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 will still generate git messages about uncommitted changes.

No, it doesn't generate such messages ... I've pushed these changes
already, you can try.

> The CDBS approach is to move the files aside on build and restore them on
> clean.

I would like to stay with debhelper, do you know how to simulate
similar approach with debhelper?

regards

mira