Re: Generated changes and patch systems

2008-05-28 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 06:06:28PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Neil Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > With these gtk-doc files, it's not so much that the tmpl/*.sgml files > > are generated but that a tool essential to the build modifies them in a > > way that cannot be patched because the

Re: Generated changes and patch systems

2008-05-27 Thread Russ Allbery
Neil Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, 2008-05-25 at 08:40 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: >> Lots of other packages do this -- one of mine off the top of my head is >> xml-security-c. > Nope. No mention of aclocal.m4 in debian/rules for that package, > just /usr/share/misc/config.guess a

Re: Generated changes and patch systems

2008-05-27 Thread Neil Williams
On Sun, 2008-05-25 at 08:40 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Neil Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Sun, 2008-05-25 at 13:19 +0100, Mark Brown wrote: > > >> If you run autotools at build time you should also ensure that the > >> changes which autotools makes are reverted in the clean target.