Ramsay Jones <ramsay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > I did have a patch #9 that moved the removal of the tarballs from > the 'clean' target to the 'distclean' target (that is move the new > 'iterate over the dist-tars file' code). However, I wasn't convinced > that it was a better place for it. I am not either, other than "things created by 'make distX' cleaned by 'make distclean'---that sounds consistent" ;-). > Also, just moving the new removal code would not alter the concerns > about it that you express above. So, we need to address that either > way. "make distclean" can still depend on GIT-VERSION-FILE and your daily cleaning needs can use "make clean" that cleans only the files that can be cleaned without knowing what GIT_VERSION is, no? That way, we do not have to use dist-tars file at all, no?
