Colin Watson wrote: > FWIW, I was thinking much more of native packages here; non-native > packages already tend to just import the upstream tarball which usually > contains generated files, which is probably why this hasn't been a > problem for things like git-buildpackage. If nothing else, there are > several native packages in the d-i tree alone that don't have configure > et al in Subversion.
Or these files could be checked into a copy of the repo that is used to build the source package, and not checked into the "main" vcs. This is not unlike those same packages in d-i shipping the generated files in their .diff.gz, if you look at diff as just another vcs.. -- see shy jo
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