[SCM] pd-zexy/master: preserve autom4te.cache

Reinhard Tartler siretart at tauware.de
Tue Sep 27 18:33:12 UTC 2011


On Di, Sep 27, 2011 at 18:57:14 (CEST), Jonas Smedegaard wrote:

> On 11-09-27 at 06:49pm, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
>> On Di, Sep 27, 2011 at 17:30:51 (CEST), zmoelnig-guest at users.alioth.debian.org wrote:
>> 
>> > The following commit has been merged in the master branch:
>> > commit ce6b55f7d5eaed7c6d805e920cc93607a33e408c
>> > Author: IOhannes m zmölnig <zmoelnig at iem.at>
>> > Date:   Tue Sep 27 17:13:52 2011 +0200
>> >
>> >     preserve autom4te.cache
>> >     
>> >     which is in the upstream tarball though it never should have gone there...
>
> [snip]
>
>> Why not deleting it in the clean target and remove it from the 
>> packaging (i.e., 'master') branch?
>
> IMO a noble ideal to preserve upstream sources as pristine as possible.

we do that in the upstream branch, and use pristine-tar.

Deleting it from the branch worked best for me in the past and avoids
annoying warnings from git.

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