autoconf and epel-5

Horst H. von Brand vonbrand at inf.utfsm.cl
Mon Mar 2 13:39:33 UTC 2009


Ralf Corsepius <rc040203 at freenet.de> wrote:

[...]

> What people like Toshio and you miss: auto*generated files are
> (upstream) maintainer generated _sources_, not being meant to be
> automatically generated nor regenerated.

Most package sources in SCMs don't include those files, when they are in
the tarballs it is for convenience AFAIU.

And if the sources from which those files are created are being
distributed in the package I'd take that as a strong hint that you are
free to recreate them as needed.
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