[pkg-nvidia-devel] [patch 190xx] [5/k] cleanup handling of autogenerated files

[Russ Allbery]

Andreas Beckmann <debian at abeckmann.de> writes:

> In this "cleanup only" patch I didn't want to introduce new complex
> rules to regenerate debian/control that use md5sums to detect changes -
> and now you found a much better solution using substvars :-)

Yeah, people don't realize that there are all sorts of neat things you can
do with substvars.  :)  The only thing you can't do is fiddle with the
source package section.

I suspect that quite a lot of the generated files could go away now that
debhelper and lintian both support wildcards.

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Russ Allbery (rra at debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>