[SCM] pd-zexy/master: preserve autom4te.cache

[Reinhard Tartler]

On Di, Sep 27, 2011 at 20:50:01 (CEST), Jonas Smedegaard wrote:

> On 11-09-27 at 08:33pm, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
>> On Di, Sep 27, 2011 at 18:57:14 (CEST), Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
>> 
>> > On 11-09-27 at 06:49pm, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
>> >> On Di, Sep 27, 2011 at 17:30:51 (CEST), 
>> >> zmoelnig-guest at users.alioth.debian.org wrote:
>> >> 
>> >> > The following commit has been merged in the master branch:
>> >> > commit ce6b55f7d5eaed7c6d805e920cc93607a33e408c
>> >> > Author: IOhannes m zmölnig <zmoelnig at iem.at>
>> >> > Date:   Tue Sep 27 17:13:52 2011 +0200
>> >> >
>> >> >     preserve autom4te.cache
>> >> >     
>> >> >     which is in the upstream tarball though it never should have 
>> >> >     gone there...
>> >
>> > [snip]
>> >
>> >> Why not deleting it in the clean target and remove it from the 
>> >> packaging (i.e., 'master') branch?
>> >
>> > IMO a noble ideal to preserve upstream sources as pristine as possible.
>> 
>> we do that in the upstream branch, and use pristine-tar.
>> 
>> Deleting it from the branch worked best for me in the past and avoids
>> annoying warnings from git.
>
> "branch" is a VCS term.
>
> What I am talking about is not (only) to preserve (when possible) 
> pristine upstream source in VCS, but also as shipped source package.
>
> I.e. to not "remove it from the packaging" as you explicitly seem to 
> suggest.

Ah, you are splitting hairs. No, that's not what I've meant with that.

At least, we seem to agree on what to do. :-)


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