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

[Jonas Smedegaard]

On 11-09-27 at 09:55pm, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
> On Di, Sep 27, 2011 at 20:50:01 (CEST), Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> 
> > On 11-09-27 at 08:33pm, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
> >> 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.
> >
> > "branch" is a VCS term.
> >
> > What I am talking about is not (only) to preserve (when possible) 
> > pristine upstream source in VCS, but also as shipped source package.
> >
> > I.e. to not "remove it from the packaging" as you explicitly seem to 
> > suggest.
> 
> Ah, you are splitting hairs. No, that's not what I've meant with that.

Ah, when we disagree on tiny details, _I_ am the one splitting hair?!?



> At least, we seem to agree on what to do. :-)

Oh, we do?  Great! :-)


 - Jonas

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