[xml/sgml] question about auto-generated files

Ardo van Rangelrooij debian-xml-sgml-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org
Mon, 17 Nov 2003 20:37:38 -0600


Graham Wilson (graham@debian.org) wrote:
> I am (finally) getting around to putting my packages in CVS, and I have
> some questions about the auto-generated files.
> 
> cvs-inject seems to import them into the repository, however, I thought
> that it was a bad idea to keep machine generated files under version
> control. Does anyone else have any experience or thoughts on this?

I just did an `cvs rm -f` of all the auto-generated files and followed the
README.Debian of the autotools-dev package.  Look at the expat package for
what I did exactly.  IIRC I also did that with the libxslt package when I
maintained it.

Thanks,
Ardo
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