On Tue, Jun 18, 2019 at 1:33 PM Nicola Di Lieto wrote: > The tarball is also signed with the same key in the dsc file > > https://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/u/uacme/uacme_1.0.16-1.dsc
I was referring to detached signatures over the tarball here, distributed via github. > I will definitely not delete configure, Makefile.in and their friends > from the upstream releases because other systems than debian also use > uacme and I want to preserve, as is customary, the ability to do > './configure && make install'. That is what the `make dist` tarball is for, they shouldn't be in version control. > In addition build-aux/git-version-gen and build-aux/m4/* are not > generated. If I deleted them autotools would not be able to regenerate > the configure script anymore. Where do they come from? If they are copied in from other places, then they shouldn't be in git (just `make dist` tarballs). If they are written for and maintained for uacme they should be in git. Looking at git-version-gen, it seems to come from autotools somehow. Looking at build-aux/m4/* it seems they come from autoconf-archive. IMO both should be removed and copied in at `autoreconf -sif` time so they are available in `make dist` tarballs. > As an example, uacme is now being packaged for OpenWRT: > https://github.com/openwrt/packages/pull/9150 and there they don't want > to regenerate configure and the manuals. All they care is that it gets > built. We might disagree with their approach but then again they could > disagree with debian's. So I am being pragmatic and trying to support > both. You could setup `make dist` to build/include the generated manual page artefacts for platforms that don't build everything from source. I have been thinking about writing an autotools mode that splits the upstream tarball into multiple tarballs, including: VCS-equivalent tarball, autotools cruft tarball, architecture-all tarball, etc. > I think in the end what matters for debian is that everything is > regenerated from source cleanly, which is the case. Agreed. -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
