Limit .gitignore to allow 'git clean'; aid repeated builds.
The .gitignore file in this repository covers build products and
prevents the use of commands like git clean -f -d to restore the
repository to a pristine state.
It is of particular importance to Debian. Our build tools assert that
source trees are identical to tarballs created from clean upstream
repositories (which we keep in our archive). For repeated builds, it
requires a working clean target that few upstreams provide.
In Debian, the specific error for your packages is:
dpkg-source: error: aborting due to unexpected upstream changes, see /tmp/gammastep_2.0.2-4.diff.JdV_YZ
dpkg-source: info: you can integrate the local changes with dpkg-source --commit
dpkg-buildpackage: error: dpkg-source -b . subprocess returned exit status 2
debuild: fatal error at line 1182:
dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -us -uc -ui failedA diffstat for the unexpected source changes mentioned is attached
below. The information illustrates the magnitude of the changes that
are being made.
Git also provides a great way to obtain a pristine source tree with
the git clean family of commands, but that requires judicious
management of ignored files. In your case, git status always shows a
clean source tree.
Ideally, Git would only ignore files that deserve to be disregarded because they have no effect on builds. Editor backup files are a common example.
Build products, on the other hand, and files otherwise generated or modified should not be ignored.
Without this commit, the Debian packager has to employ this awkward sequence before each build:
rm .gitignore
git clean -f -d
git checkout .In summary, acceptance of this commit would greatly aid packaging in Debian, and perhaps elsewhere. It also lowers the hurdle to work on new releases of your software when packaging it.
On a very positive note, your helpful program already stirred up great interest inside Debian and will probably be backported to our stable release shortly. Thank you for providing gammastep!
$ diffstat /tmp/gammastep_2.0.2-4.diff.JdV_YZ
/Makefile.in | 693 +
gammastep-2.0.2/ABOUT-NLS | 1068 +
gammastep-2.0.2/Makefile.in | 1183 ++
gammastep-2.0.2/aclocal.m4 | 1696 ++
gammastep-2.0.2/compile | 348
gammastep-2.0.2/config.guess | 1480 ++
gammastep-2.0.2/config.h.in | 129
gammastep-2.0.2/config.rpath | 666 +
gammastep-2.0.2/config.sub | 1801 +++
gammastep-2.0.2/configure |18976 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
gammastep-2.0.2/depcomp | 791 +
gammastep-2.0.2/install-sh | 518
gammastep-2.0.2/ltmain.sh |11249 +++++++++++++++++++
gammastep-2.0.2/m4/codeset.m4 | 21
gammastep-2.0.2/m4/gettext.m4 | 381
gammastep-2.0.2/m4/glibc2.m4 | 30
gammastep-2.0.2/m4/glibc21.m4 | 30
gammastep-2.0.2/m4/iconv.m4 | 180
gammastep-2.0.2/m4/intdiv0.m4 | 84
gammastep-2.0.2/m4/intl.m4 | 285
gammastep-2.0.2/m4/intldir.m4 | 19
gammastep-2.0.2/m4/intlmacosx.m4 | 51
gammastep-2.0.2/m4/intltool.m4 | 212
gammastep-2.0.2/m4/intmax.m4 | 33
gammastep-2.0.2/m4/inttypes-pri.m4 | 36
gammastep-2.0.2/m4/inttypes_h.m4 | 26
gammastep-2.0.2/m4/lcmessage.m4 | 30
gammastep-2.0.2/m4/lib-ld.m4 | 110
gammastep-2.0.2/m4/lib-link.m4 | 709 +
gammastep-2.0.2/m4/lib-prefix.m4 | 185
gammastep-2.0.2/m4/libtool.m4 | 8388 ++++++++++++++
gammastep-2.0.2/m4/lock.m4 | 316
gammastep-2.0.2/m4/longlong.m4 | 109
gammastep-2.0.2/m4/ltoptions.m4 | 437
gammastep-2.0.2/m4/ltsugar.m4 | 124
gammastep-2.0.2/m4/ltversion.m4 | 23
gammastep-2.0.2/m4/lt~obsolete.m4 | 99
gammastep-2.0.2/m4/nls.m4 | 31
gammastep-2.0.2/m4/po.m4 | 449
gammastep-2.0.2/m4/printf-posix.m4 | 44
gammastep-2.0.2/m4/progtest.m4 | 92
gammastep-2.0.2/m4/size_max.m4 | 68
gammastep-2.0.2/m4/stdint_h.m4 | 26
gammastep-2.0.2/m4/uintmax_t.m4 | 30
gammastep-2.0.2/m4/visibility.m4 | 52
gammastep-2.0.2/m4/wchar_t.m4 | 20
gammastep-2.0.2/m4/wint_t.m4 | 28
gammastep-2.0.2/m4/xsize.m4 | 13
gammastep-2.0.2/missing | 215
gammastep-2.0.2/po/Makefile.in.in | 221
gammastep-2.0.2/po/Makevars.template | 41
gammastep-2.0.2/po/Rules-quot | 47
gammastep-2.0.2/po/boldquot.sed | 10
gammastep-2.0.2/po/en@boldquot.header | 25
gammastep-2.0.2/po/en@quot.header | 22
gammastep-2.0.2/po/insert-header.sin | 23
gammastep-2.0.2/po/quot.sed | 6
gammastep-2.0.2/po/remove-potcdate.sin | 19
gammastep-2.0.2/py-compile | 170
gammastep-2.0.2/src/Makefile.in | 1007 +
60 files changed, 55175 insertions(+)