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revision 8629 by osamu, Mon Apr 4 15:04:10 2011 UTC revision 8631 by osamu, Mon Apr 4 15:36:05 2011 UTC
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3505  </section>  </section>
3506  <section id="sourceopt"><title><filename>source/options</filename> file</title>  <section id="sourceopt"><title><filename>source/options</filename> file</title>
3507  <para>  <para>
3508  When you want to build source package while ignoring meaningless changes made  When you want to build a source package while ignoring changes made
3509  to the autogenerated files such as <filename>config.sub</filename>  to the autogenerated files such as <filename>config.sub</filename>
3510  <filename>config.guess</filename> and <filename>Makefile</filename>, you can  <filename>config.guess</filename> and <filename>Makefile</filename>, you can
3511  use <literal>--extend-diff-ignore</literal> option of <citerefentry>  use <literal>--extend-diff-ignore</literal> option of <citerefentry>
3512  <refentrytitle>dpkg-source</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum>  <refentrytitle>dpkg-source</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum>
3513  </citerefentry>.  If this is the case for your package, you can store this  </citerefentry>.
3514  option for everybody in the source package using the  </para>
3515  <filename>source/options</filename> file as follows.  <para>
3516    Even if your package can not be packaged easily using
3517    <command>dh_autoreconf</command> as described in <xref linkend="customrules"/>,
3518    you can package it cleanly by storing the <command>dpkg-source</command> option
3519    in the <filename>source/options</filename> file to avoid creating meaningless
3520    patches as follows.
3521  </para>  </para>
3522  <screen>  <screen>
3523  extend-diff-ignore = "(^|/)(config\.sub|config\.guess|Makefile)$"  extend-diff-ignore = "(^|/)(config\.sub|config\.guess|Makefile)$"

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