Changes in config.{sub,guess} and "abort-on-upstream-changes"

[Jonas Smedegaard]

On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 11:45:52PM +0100, Jaromír Mikeš wrote:
>2011/2/17 Felipe Sateler <fsateler at debian.org>:
>> 2011/2/17 Jaromír Mikeš <mira.mikes at gmail.com>:
>>> 2011/2/17 Alessandro Ghedini <al3xbio at gmail.com>:
>>>> On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 08:17:47PM +0100, Jaromír Mikeš wrote:
>>>>> file config.{sub,guess} are modified while running git-buildpackage -S
>>>>> and "abort-on-upstream-changes" in local-options file aborting
>>>>> process.
>>>>> What is right solution for this situation?
>>>>> git://git.debian.org/pkg-multimedia/phat.git
>>>>
>>>> Try adding something like:
>>>>
>>>>    extend-diff-ignore = "(^|/)config.(sub|guess)$"
>>>>
>>>> to debian/source/local-options. It makes dpkg ignore modifications to
>>>> config.{sub,guess} when generating the diff for changes.
>>>
>>> This is nice solution, maybe this can be recommended in our wiki.
>>> I can put it there if some general agreement for using this will
>>> exists in team.
>>> What others think?
>>
>> It will still generate git messages about uncommitted changes.
>
>No, it doesn't generate such messages ... I've pushed these changes
>already, you can try.
>
>> The CDBS approach is to move the files aside on build and restore them on
>> clean.
>
>I would like to stay with debhelper, do you know how to simulate
>similar approach with debhelper?

It is not really a "CDBS" approach, but plain classic make rules in the 
rules file.

No, I don't know if short-form dh explodes if adding plain classic rules 
to the rules file after that magic let-debhelper-takeover-every-target.


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