On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 18:36, Geert Stappers wrote: > On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 11:53:48AM +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > > debhelper puts the following into the "clean" rule in debian/rules: > > > > ifneq "$(wildcard /usr/share/misc/config.sub)" "" > > cp -f /usr/share/misc/config.sub config.sub > > endif > > ifneq "$(wildcard /usr/share/misc/config.guess)" "" > > cp -f /usr/share/misc/config.guess config.guess > > endif > > > > Three questions: > > - why are these two files copied in? > > - are they necessary for the build of the program I am packaging? > > - they make my .diff.gz file twice their otherwise size; can I delete > > that entry from my rules file altogether, or otherwise remove them from > > the output? > > Three days ago there was > http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2003/debian-mentors-200311/msg00030.html > with these lines: > > | Or just copy in updated config.guess and config.sub files manually each > | time it becomes necessary; that way you might also remember to tell > | upstream that they should update their copies, which is something a good > | Debian maintainer should be doing.
(Yes, I hadn't read that thread - thanks.) However, I'm still unsure whether these (I assume _yes_ at this point) confusion came from the fact that the upstream source does not have these files at all. This response in this thread: On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 13:58, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > Anyway, whatever you do, you are to keep these files up-to-date. > See the autotools-dev readme file. doesn't actually say if I must have these files - only that I must keep them up to date. This command: $ find /usr/share/doc/debian-policy/ -type f|xargs grep -in autotools gives me no output. tia zen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
