[libvirt] [PATCH] Don't ship autogen.sh in release tarballs

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Thu, Apr 13, 2017 at 10:11:50AM -0500, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 04/13/2017 10:06 AM, Andrea Bolognani wrote:
> > autogen.sh is only useful for developers, not users, and we
> > expect developers to have a git checkout handy, so there's
> > no point in shipping the script in release tarballs.
> 
> I'm worried this breaks the GPL. autogen.sh is our preferred way for
> rebuilding autotools in preparation for a release, and thus I think the
> script belongs in a tarball even if it is not expected to be used by the
> end user.

Aside from the licensing question, IMHO, the tar.xz should always contain
all the files we have in GIT, plus whatever auto-generated files we decide
are needed.  If nothing else that gives users clear visibility into what
generated the auto-generated files, even if they don't need to re-run that
auto-generation process themselves.


Regards,
Daniel
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