On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 12:46:08PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > On Thu, 2014-04-24 at 13:32 +0900, Simon Horman wrote: > > > While I'm not opposed to this off-hand I am curious to know what the > > motivation for it is. > > Within Debian there has been a renewed focus on finding and removing > sourceless files and one Debian contributor mentioned kexec/purgatory.c > on IRC and asked for help finding if source was missing. It was > concluded that the source was present and this wasn't an issue.... Thanks, an interesting initiative. > ..but I tend to think that generated files should always be built from > source and never be present in VCS repositories and only autotools > generated files should be in tarballs. This ensures that they get built > as often as possible and bugs with that process are discovered early. That seems reasonable to me. Could you add something like that to the changelog and add a signed-off-by line?
