Re: distribution of texi2any_internals.info

[Gavin Smith]

On Tue, Sep 03, 2024 at 08:05:24PM +0200, Bruno Haible wrote:
> Gavin Smith wrote:
> > I found the change was made in commit 1db4e2d2fd18b (2024-07-26) on the
> > master branch, which change I then propagated onto the release/7.1 branch
> > as part of other build system fixes.
> 
> Commit 1db4e2d2fd18b is on the release/7.1 branch. The corresponding commit
> on the master branch is d80f36fca1ab2ebe3bb27f17c9fb92025a2c532b.

Sorry, my mistake.

> I was not in CC of mails that discussed this.
> 
> 'maintainer-clean' and 'distclean' are defined in
> https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/Standard-Targets.html
> Basically:
>   - If a file is in the tarball, "make distclean" should preserve it.
>   - If a file is not in the tarball, but is created by "make",
>     either "make mostlyclean", "make clean", or "make distclean"
>     should remove it.

Yes, but the question is whether the file should be in the tarball or not.