[Pkg-xen-devel] [PATCH for-xen-4.5 1/3] tools/hotplug: distclean target should remove files generated by configure

[Ian Campbell]

On Wed, 2014-12-03 at 15:36 -0500, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 03, 2014 at 04:53:53PM +0100, Daniel Kiper wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 02, 2014 at 01:36:20PM -0500, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> > > On Tue, Dec 02, 2014 at 04:16:28PM +0100, Daniel Kiper wrote:
> > > > Signed-off-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper at oracle.com>
> > >
> > > This usage scenario which I can see this being useful (and
> > > I've tripped over this) is when you rebuild a new version
> > > from the same repo. As in, this affects developers, but
> > > not end-users and not distros. But perhaps I am missing
> > > one scenario?
> > >
> > > As such I would lean towards deferring this (and the other
> > > two) to Xen 4.6.
> > 
> > As I know Debian build system sometimes complain if make distclean
> > does not leave build tree in distclean state (read "state before
> > configure" != "state after distclean"). It means that from
> > distros point of view we should apply this patch. However,
> > other two are not required and we can deffer them to Xen 4.6.
> 
> Cc-ing Axel and Debian Xen Team.

Debian is shipping 4.4 in the next release (8, Jessie, already frozen)
and I think it likely that the release after that will ship something
greater than 4.5 due to the timelines involved.

In any case, the Debian Xen packages cannot have any bugs of the kind
mentioned here because the package copyies the source to
debian/build/foo (for reasons other than distclean) and nuking the
entire of debian/build on clean.

Ian.