RFS: visualboyadvance/1.8.0.dfsg-2

Etienne Millon etienne.millon at gmail.com
Fri May 17 08:31:46 UTC 2013


* Vincent Legout <vincent at legout.info> [130516 23:04]:
> > I tried but unfortunately this does not work, because it recreates a
> > lot of files (INSTALL, etc) and dh_autoreconf_clean deletes for
> > example mkinstalldirs. It should be possible to save these files and
> > restore them (writing a lot of logic), or repack the tarball, but just
> > calling the autotools manually is the least ugly IMHO.
> 
> If I remember correctly, you don't have to save and restore any file,
> dh-autoreconf takes care of everything. I think it's fine if some files
> are deleted at the end of the build as long as they don't prevent
> another build.

I thought that too, maybe I'm confusing with "dh --with autotools_dev"
which IIRC is a superset of dh_autoreconf.

> I tried with the following debian/rules but debclean failed because it
> wants to run make distclean twice in po/. I didn't go further as your
> solution is fine :)
>

This would also achieve a no-op "clean" after unpacking which is
always nice to have (especially with git-buildpackage), but this will
be easier with later releases, I guess.

> > I repushed the package to alioth and re-uploaded the .dsc to mentors
> > at the same URL.
> 
> Thanks, I've uploaded the package.

Thank you for the helpful reviews and the upload. The buildds seem
happy with it :)

-- 
Etienne Millon



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