liblscp -packaging

[Jaromír Mikeš]

2016-11-23 23:19 GMT+01:00 James Cowgill <jcowgill at debian.org>:
> On 23/11/16 22:15, Jaromír Mikeš wrote:
>> 2016-11-23 22:47 GMT+01:00 James Cowgill <jcowgill at debian.org>:
>>> On 16/11/16 08:02, Jaromír Mikeš wrote:
>>>> 2016-11-15 23:42 GMT+01:00 James Cowgill <jcowgill at debian.org>:
>>>>> On 15/11/16 12:28, Ondrej Novy wrote:
>>>>>> 2016-11-15 11:47 GMT+01:00 Jaromír Mikeš <mira.mikes at gmail.com>:
>>>>>>> after building liblscp some files gets deleted
>>>>>>
>>>>>> i would use extend-diff-ignore in d/source/options, because it looks
>>>>>> like "just cache". Maybe upstream should remove this files from release too.
>>>>>
>>>>> I don't think that option is applicable here. dpkg-source by default
>>>>> already ignores deleted files which are present in the orig tarball.
>>>>> There's nothing needed to get dpkg-source to work.
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm not sure how you'd get git-buildpackage to ignore just this
>>>>> directory though. Usually I just ignore stuff like this and 'git
>>>>> checkout --' whenever I need to use gbp. Try and get upstream to remove
>>>>> it in the next release.
>>>>
>>>> thank you!
>>>> liblscp ready is for upload now.
>>>
>>> A few comments (and sorry I've been quite busy this past week):
>>>
>>> I don't understand why you have now decided to repack the source. Why do
>>> you need to remove autom4te.cache? The build works fine even with it.
>>
>> I have been in contact with upstream and asked him to remove this dir
>> in future release ...
>> The answer was ... something like ... "I am ok with this on opensuse
>> ... so I don't care"
>> Then I think is better for us to take care of this issue this way now
>> and in future.
>
> So why do you need to remove this directory in the first place?

This directory has been always deleted during a build and makes source "dirty"
I didn't found any better solution for this problem.

mira