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configure-generated-file-in-source

Leaving config.cache/status causes autobuilders problems. config.cache and config.status are produced by GNU autoconf's configure scripts. If they are left in the source package, autobuilders may pick up settings for the wrong architecture.

The clean rule in debian/rules should remove this file. This should ideally be done by fixing the upstream build system to do it when you run the appropriate cleaning command (and don't forget to forward the fix to the upstream authors so it doesn't happen in the next release). If that is already implemented, then make sure you are indeed cleaning it in the clean rule. If all else fails, a simple rm -f should work.

Note that Lintian cannot reliably detect the removal in the clean rule, so once you fix this, please ignore or override this warning.

The tag is present in Lintian version 2.114.163. That is the most recent version we know about.

We use semantic versions. The patch number is a commit step indicator relative to the 2.114.0 release tag in our Git repository.

You can find the detection logic for this version at commit fac7222. For merge requests, please use the latest version in the Lintian check build-systems/autotools.

Visibility: warning

The following 46 source packages in the archive triggered the tag 78 times (in any Lintian version).

We found 9 overrides. The tag performed 88% of the time.