Bug#1142493: dpkg-source: --commit should exclude changes made by dh_autoreconf

ti 21.7.2026 klo 13.35 Guillem Jover ([email protected]) kirjoitti:
>
> Control: reassign -1 dh-autoreconf
> On Mon, 2026-07-20 at 19:14:09 +0300, Martin-=C3=89ric Racine wrote:
> > Package: dpkg-dev
> > Version: 1.23.7
> > Severity: normal
> > X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected]
>
> > 'dpkg-source --commit' should always exclude changes made by
> > dh_autoreconf unless explicitly told to include them.
>
> The files affected by dh_autoreconf operation are dynamic, and not even
> dh_autoreconf knows about them beforehand. It currently tracks the state
> of the files before and after execution to be able to check what changed.
>
> Adding support for this in dpkg-source would imply having to use
> internal files and implementation details from dh_autoreconf, which
> seems wrong.

A simpler approach would be to tell dh_autoreconf to restore dynamic
files before dpkg-source commits other changes to a patch.

Martin-=C3=89ric