[PATCH util-modular 00/10] release.sh cleanups, mesa support and more

[Julien Cristau]

On Fri, Jul  1, 2016 at 15:44:41 +0100, Emil Velikov wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> A series that I've had around for long time. It covers three main topics.
>  - misc cleanups and small reformatting in prep. for mesa support
>  - mesa support (10/10)
>  - give us control to autoreconf, configure and build_dir (09/10).
> 
> The last option might be a bit controversial, yet it effectively allows 
> us to remove the "user must run autoreconf/configure" requirement 
> from every single package. If configure is OK, `make distcheck' should 
> produce consistent result, and the tarball contents should not vary.
> 
> It also minimises the chances of stale (generated) files being used as 
> we suggest git clean -fXd/fxd, and we use fresh, unique build_dir. IMHO 
> it also makes things more reproducible, yet again... I'm too flesh on 
> the topic to be an expert.
> 
> As always, any and all comments, suggestions are appreciated.
> 
For 1, 3, 4, 5, 7 (assuming 10 goes in in some way):
Reviewed-by: Julien Cristau <jcristau at debian.org>

Not a fan of 2 and 6.  I don't have enough context to understand what 8
changes.  9 seems to add a new requirement that I'm not sure is ok.  And
I wish mesa stopped using a separate directory per release :)

Cheers,
Julien