[Build-common-hackers] Bug#521166: Bug#521166: Bug#521166: cdbs: When there is already config.status in tarball, build error

[Jonas Smedegaard]

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On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 02:47:44PM +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>Nobuhiro Iwamatsu wrote:
>> Upstream released with having put a config.status file in tarball.
>> 
>> In this case the package which maintainer used cdbs for fails in 
>> build. Because when there was config.status, cdbs misrecognizes when 
>> configure was carried out, and the reason is because it carries out 
>> make.
>> 
>> Because cdbs carry out make though does not have Makefile, the build 
>> becomes the error.
>
>I think your best bet here is to set up your debian/rules to delete 
>config.status before anything else.

I completely agree with Peter.

You can have a look at the sympa package in Debian unstable (look in 
debian/rules for "upstreamtmpfiles") for a semi-generic way to handle 
upstream "noise".


  - Jonas

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