On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 11:53:48AM +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > debhelper puts the following into the "clean" rule in debian/rules:
dh_make != debhelper. > 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? No good reason. > - are they necessary for the build of the program I am packaging? Not unless they were already present. > - 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? Yes. -- - mdz
