On Mon, Aug 06, 2007 at 12:17:26PM +0100, David Given wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > I'm current packaging ufiformat, a USB floppy disk formatter (#436134). It's > nearly at the stage of looking for a sponsor, but before that happens I'd like > to sound people out about something. > > I needed to change Makefile.am to tell it to install the binary in the right > place. When rebuilding, autotools whinged about aclocal.m4 being too old and > that I should regenerate it, which I did. Now the (compressed) patch file is > 80+kB, only slightly smaller than the source code itself, and is almost > entirely comprised of the new aclocal.m4. > > Is this acceptable, or does it need addressing? If so, how? It's acceptable and preferred by some.
Otherwise you can depend on autotools-dev and run them at build time, and remove the generated files at clean time to get a small diff. autotools-dev/README.DEBIAN discusses such. Justin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]