Re: New LAME release: 3.100

Quoting Fabian Greffrath <[email protected]> (from Fri, 20 Oct 2017  
20:21:32 +0200):

> 3) It is inconvenient that auto-generated files such as */Makefile.in
> are distributed as part of the release tarball. We re-generate these
> files as part of the packaging process (see above) and this leads to a
> pretty huge but meaningless interdiff between the pristine source
> release and the package source.

If we don't provide those auto-generated files, users which build from  
source would need to have automake (in the right version) installed.  
You also talk from the perspective of your distribution, which may not  
be the way other distributions or OS' handle this.

Now... if there is a huge diff, this means there is some change.

If this change is just in comments (e.g. generation date), then I  
agree that you have useless things there (which you could maybe filter  
out, which would be beneficial for all automake-using packages you  
have in the packaging system of your distribution).

If this is not just comments, then it means you have changed something  
in *.am which we should look at incorporating, or you use the "wrong"  
(different than what we use) automake version (then you can't complain  
here), or your automake is locally patched (compared to the official  
version), or "our" automake is locally patched (which means I should  
have a look at this).

Could you please tell what the content of the diff is?

Bye,
Alexander.
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