GNU bug report logs - #32074
maintainer-clean and removing configure/Makefile.in/etc.

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Package: automake;

Reported by: Karl Berry <karl <at> freefriends.org>

Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2018 23:29:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Mathieu Lirzin <mthl <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #29 received at 32074 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Mathieu Lirzin <mthl <at> gnu.org>
To: Karl Berry <karl <at> freefriends.org>
Cc: 32074 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#32074: maintainer-clean and removing
 configure/Makefile.in/etc.
Date: Sun, 08 Jul 2018 23:35:07 +0200

Karl Berry <karl <at> freefriends.org> writes:

>     I think Automake shouldn't suggest something that is explicitly
>     discouraged by the GCS.
>
> Good point. I agree.
>
>     I would suggest discussing it on ...
>
> Perfectly reasonable, but I'm just too old to have the stomach for those
> discussions any more :(. Hardly the most crucial suggestion in the
> world, fine for it to be relegated to the dustheap of history :).

No need to be old to be relunctant about starting this kind of
discussions which are often painful.  :-)

Feel free to reopen the bug if you change your mind.

-- 
Mathieu Lirzin
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