On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 10:05:08AM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > 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..
This is true. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
