[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #45646] files in source distribution should not be deleted on "clean" or "distclean"

[Rik]

Update of bug #45646 (project octave):

                  Status:                    None => Confirmed              

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Follow-up Comment #1:

Good catch, although we need to think carefully about what files belong in
which cleanup batch.

Here is the guidance from GNU Autotools


As the GNU Standards aren’t always explicit as to which files should be
removed by which rule, we’ve adopted a heuristic that we believe was first
formulated by François Pinard:

    If make built it, and it is commonly something that one would want to
rebuild (for instance, a .o file), then mostlyclean should delete it.
    Otherwise, if make built it, then clean should delete it.
    If configure built it, then distclean should delete it.
    If the maintainer built it (for instance, a .info file), then
maintainer-clean should delete it. However maintainer-clean should not delete
anything that needs to exist in order to run ‘./configure && make’. 


I fixed the removal of the documentation files (.texi and DOCSTRINGS) with
distclean target in this cset
(http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/4300fe896004).


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