On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 00:22:50 (CEST), Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: > On Aug 22, 2010, at 2:20 PM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > >> On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 08:18:24PM -0400, Felipe Sateler wrote: >>> On 21/08/10 18:00, eighthave-gu...@users.alioth.debian.org wrote: >>>> The following commit has been merged in the master branch: >>>> commit b50fc79d8a856062d9a05100dd83a7fca3bf696b >>>> Author: Hans-Christoph Steiner <h...@eds.org> >>>> Date: Sat Aug 21 17:43:50 2010 -0400 >>>> >>>> added gitignore for clean git-status >>>> >>>> diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore >>>> new file mode 100644 >>>> index 0000000..3c2f99e >>>> --- /dev/null >>>> +++ b/.gitignore >>>> @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ >>>> +debian/files >>>> +debian/pd-pmpd.debhelper.log >>>> +debian/pd-pmpd.substvars >>>> +debian/pd-pmpd/ >>>> +*.o >>>> +*.pd_linux >>>> +.pc >>> >>> I can't think of any reason not to do this... but we don't seem to >>> have this in any of our other packages (or at least, most). Any >>> reason why we haven't done this before? >> >> I dislike silencing cruft, as in my packaging development routines >> cruft is a sign of something potentially forgotten or gone wrong: >> >> A normal packaging build and successive cleanup should leave no traces >> behind[1]. > > > Sounds reasonable. I don't have a strong opinion, so I am happy to > remove the .gitignore if you think I should.
I think ignoring the .pc directory is okay. We also (have to) tolerate the existance of .git after all. -- Gruesse/greetings, Reinhard Tartler, KeyID 945348A4 _______________________________________________ pkg-multimedia-maintainers mailing list pkg-multimedia-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-multimedia-maintainers