[pkg-firebird-general] Re: New firebird2 upstream (1.5.3) for upload

[Francesco P. Lovergine]

On Thu, Mar 16, 2006 at 11:39:07AM +0200, Damyan Ivanov wrote:
> Francesco P. Lovergine wrote:
> > Generally I would prefer to remove the CVS stuff. Didn't the upstream
> > have a 'dist' rule to create a clean tarball? If not it could be added
> > or proposed as patch upstream.
> 
> No. AFAICT they build source distributions by hand. Which leaves a place for
> the obvious improvement of automated script. Since source is distributed as a
> tar.bz, I assume they create it on unix. So a shell script shall be not too
> hard to write. I'll try to convince them to use it :)
>

I generally add a dist target for make, which is the preferred way to do that.
That at least for my own projects.

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Francesco P. Lovergine