distclean, Re: proper way to link mplayer to shared ffmpeg , was Re: Bug#520113

Fri Mar 27 11:21:55 UTC 2009

On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 12:09:41PM +0100, A Mennucc wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 11:15:32AM +0100, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> > [...]
> > 
> > And while we're at it, why do you run distclean before configure?  It is
> > completely pointless and fails of course because config.mak was not yet
> > created by configure...
> 
> this is standard in Debian; 
> 1) distclean tree 
> 2) create the diff.gz .dsc 
> 3) build the package
> 4) pack into .deb
> 
> note that the above is idempotent: this AFAICR
> is required by the policy

Maybe I'm missing something totally obvious about your packaging, but if
you take a fresh tarball, the distclean is totally pointless...

Diego
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