On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 6:57 AM, Leo "costela" Antunes <cost...@debian.org> wrote: > Paul Wise wrote: >> I personally think Debian should remove menu and replace it with >> upstreamed patches for FreeDesktop menu support. > > Agreed in the long run, but since there are AFAIK (haven't checked in a > while) still some window-managers/desktop-environments that don't fully > support desktop files, it's just a minor hassle.
Agreed, and likewise some desktops that don't support the Debian menu (or disable it by default). >>> - [subjective] I don't believe the debian/clean files are really >>> necessary. (though it probably doesn't hurt either) >> >> That prevents the diff to those files after autoreconf from ending up >> in the debian.tar.gz. > > I don't think I'm seeing the issue here. Care to elaborate a bit more? > Isn't that the whole idea behind patching and running autoreconf in the > first place? If we wanted the changed files produced by autoreconf in > the debian.tar.gz we wouldn't need to run it, right? What am I missing? If you don't remove the files on clean, then after autoreconf they will be different from the ones in the orig.tar.gz. If you build the package multiple times, then dpkg-source (with format v3) will add a patch to debian/patches containing the diff of those files, for dpkg-source 1.0, the diff will be added to the diff.gz. The patches are ugly and a waste of space if you're running autoreconf before ./configure anyway. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
