bzr-gtk release process

[John Arbash Meinel]

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On 2/9/2011 6:05 PM, James Westby wrote:
> On Wed, 09 Feb 2011 23:47:21 +0000, Max Bowsher <maxb at f2s.com> wrote:
>> On 09/02/11 21:55, Aaron Bentley wrote:
>>> I don't mean generating it at binary build time.  I thought we could run
>>> arbitrary commands when building source packages.
>>
>> Not on Launchpad recipes, no.
> 
> You could do it in the clean target. It's not particularly pleasant, and
> may prevent others from rebuilding the source package, but worse things
> have been done in the clean target.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> James
> 
> 

You're saying that 'make clean' gets run at the start, and as a
post-clean effect you could run an arbitrary command? That does seem a
bit crazy, and certainly indicates a hole in the process.

If you are going to let people run arbitrary commands, let them do it at
the right place...

John
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