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On Planet Debian, Vincent Bernat wrote:
Excuse me‽
This is totally inacceptable. Regenerating files like aclocal.m4 and Makefile.in (for automake), configure (for autoconf), and the likes is one of the absolute duties of a software package. Things will break sooner or later if people do not do that. Additionally, generated files must be remakable from the distfile, so do not break this!
May I suggest, constructively, an alternative? (People — rightfully,
I must admit — complain I’m “just” ranting too much.)
When making
a release from git, write the “git describe” output into a file. Then,
use that file instead of trying to run the git executable if .git/. is
not a directory (“test -d .git/.”). Do not call git, because,
in packages, it’s either not installed or/and also undesired.
Couldn’t comment on your blog, but felt strongly enough about this I took the effort of writing a full post of my own.
(But thanks for the book recommendation.)
