[Pkg-freeipmi-devel] freeipmi packaging RFH [question to Albert]

[Yaroslav Halchenko]

Hi Albert,

Great news are that

- upcoming Debian wheezy should have 1.1.5

- popularity of freeipmi is rocketing in Debian land

 http://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=freeipmi

- a team (me + Ferenc Wagner + Bernd Zeimetz) is forming to
  maintain freeipmi  in Debian, so now keeping it up-to-date and in
  great shape should be easier.  If in future you are having any
  concerns, feel free to drop a note to the list (we will update our
  Maintainer: field in the package as well some time soon ;) )

Now a little question:

> >> - we might need to sanitize .orig (into +ds1) to remove pregenerated
> >>   source files which get modified by build process... 


So, Albert, in the distributed tarball you ship quite a few of
pregenerated source files/manpages/stamp files altogether with original
sources.  I understand the reason behind 'make src' "source
distribution" autoconf provides, but imho as years passed and
software/tools distribution became more robust I wonder if you
have any plans to switch to distributing pristine vanilla source
tarballs  requiring full autoconf/configure/make chain? ;)

Having both original and pre-generated sources makes clean packaging a
bit more awkward for us (as you might have mentioned with those patches
I have sent needing to modify both original and generated manpages ;)
)...  We wondered if you have a strong opinion bout shipping
pre-generated "source" files, or could you distribute a "pristine
sources" tarball.  Otherwise we might just need to repackage it while
removing all pregenerated files, or package straight from SVN (as I did
before with your CVS I believe), or look at build-time solutions to
preserve them through the build...

Thanks in advance for your reply

> ...

> We could just remove them in the clean target, or move them away to some
> directory and move them back in clean.

NB I wonder if dh_autoreconf could be of help here.  And to progress
   faster, let's ask our very responsive upstream (our list should be
   public AFAIK, please report if you can't post in private)

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