Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: About the maintainance of monotone

[Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker]

In message <address@hidden> on Tue, 18 Apr 2006 08:57:50 -0600, "Shaun Jackman" 
<address@hidden> said:

sjackman> On 4/17/06, Shaun Jackman <address@hidden> wrote:
sjackman> ...
sjackman> > * The package built fine using debuild the first time, but
sjackman> >   the second time was missing monotone.html. I don't know
sjackman> >   why. Very strange.
sjackman> > * monotone --version reports (base revision: unknown),
sjackman> >   which should be fixed before uploading.
sjackman> 
sjackman> Both these issues were fixed by avoiding a `make distclean'
sjackman> before building the package. `make distclean' should return
sjackman> the state of the build tree to exactly as it was after
sjackman> unpacking the source archive. Monotone's build system is
sjackman> being a bit overzealous and deleting a bunch of other files
sjackman> too. These files should be removed by maintainer-clean, not
sjackman> distclean.
sjackman> 
sjackman> monotone.html
sjackman> package_full_revision_dist.txt
sjackman> package_full_revision.c
sjackman> package_revision.txt
sjackman> package_revision.c

The more I look at it, the messier it looks.  If those files should be
part of a distribution, they should also be built in the source
directory, not the build directory as it is right now.

Unfortunately, my automake-fu isn't strong enough to resolve this...

Cheers,
Richard

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