Julian Andres Klode wrote: > A backup and restore approach is a completely different and more > complicated (in I/O sense) way than just deleting the files; e.g. > for a single file: >
… except that they do not operate on the same set of files. dh_backup's list would be a lot smaller than dh_autoreconf's one. Besides, dh_backup (or whatever its name is) could also delete files upon request ("dh_backup --remove" would then be dh_autoreconf minus "autoreconf"). > dh_backup: > 1. mkdir() - Create the backup directory you can use then "debian/" directory here (provided you add a suffix to backup's name). And, dh_autoreconf also creates a directory for excluded files (if any). So, I don't think that this part is really relevant for the comparison. I think that all arguments in favour or against have been mentioned. I don't have anything to add. If it really makes you happy to have this package, then so be it :) Cheers, -- Mehdi Dogguy مهدي الدڤي http://dogguy.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org