[Pkg-Cyrus-imapd-Debian-devel] .orig.tar.gz orig vs. repacked

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Mon, 01 Aug 2005, Sven Mueller wrote:
> handle all those files I removed when original creating the repacked
> tarball? I removed many which are unused (including various empty

The cyrus21 packages have a debian/removable.files (or somesuch) logic, also
in autogen.sh, to build such a list of "blow them away" files that are rm
-f'ed at debian/rules clean time.

> the config.guess and config.sub file. But how do we handle the files
> which get rebuilt automatically? If we want to keep our diff as small as

*ALL* files that are automatically generated *are* to be cleaned up (i.e.
removed) by debian/rules clean IMHO.  Anything else is just a major pain for
no good reason.

Do it, and the world suddenly becomes a nicer place, and the .diffs smaller
:)

And we can make dpatch work with a pos-debian/rules-clean tree, to keep our
sanity while at it.

> need to create backups of those files during configuration (respectively
> patch) time and restore them during cleanup (resp. unpatch) time. But
> there are quite some such files, so this task isn't too easy IMHO.

Why? If they are auto-generated, blow them away to hell, and regenerate them
during the build, using proper Debian-packaged stuff which is probably far
less buggy than whatever CMU is using (I speak from experience).

Heck, my standard way to deal with CMU's crap of a et/ dir and makefiles
which always screw up the build by using that outdated PoS instead of
Debian's perfectly fine and up-to-date et stuff is to rm -rf et/ at
debian/rules clean... :)

> PS: Any ontakers? I won't have time to do anything on the cyrus22
> project for the next two or three weeks as far as I can tell now.
> PPS: BTW: Henrique, you said you would work on cyrus22 during DebConf. I
> assume you didn't find the time to do so, just like me?

I did work, but not much.  The major unstable breakage killed any
possibility of doing builds for a while, and my dev machine is back into
track for 3 or 4 days only, now :P

I should get back to cyrus, commit the doc work I did already (nothing
major), and go right into the clean-the-package-build stuff soon.

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  Henrique Holschuh