[Pm-utils] Should not clean manpages

Peter Jones pjones at redhat.com
Tue May 15 09:10:05 PDT 2007


Tim Dijkstra wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Currently pm-utils ships its manpages in `compiled' form. However
> on `make clean' they are removed. This leaves the casual user
> without manpages in the build dir. This is somewhat inconsistent
> with them being in the tarball in the first place. This is
> equivalent with not removing the Makefiles on clean.
> 
> That is why I propose to only remove them on maintainer-clean.
> 
> I would also be comfortable to not ship them at all in build form,
> and keep the `rm -f' on clean.
> 
> Granted, this is a very minor point, but it confuses our the debian
> build system somewhat. That's why I bother to write this in the first
> place ... ;)

Agreed and applied.

-- 
   Peter


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