Paul Wise wrote: >> 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.
Oh, damn, right, absolutely! You mean the other way around. Should have thought of that... :) Still, probably wouldn't cause build issues, but it sure is ugly! Cheers -- Leo "costela" Antunes [insert a witty retort here] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org