[Privoxy-devel] [PATCH] Remove ./ prefix from tarball-dist files

[Roland Rosenfeld]

Hi and Happy New Year!

Current tarball releases always contain an useless "./" in the path
of all files like this:

privoxy-3.0.34-stable/./acconfig.h
privoxy-3.0.34-stable/./actionlist.h
privoxy-3.0.34-stable/./actions.c
...

This is a little annoying when packaging privoxy in Debian, since the
debian/copyright file contains a machine readable list of files and
their copyright and I currently have to prefix all filenames with "./"
because they are otherwise not found when checking the original
tarball.  On the other hand this fails when using git or an unpacked
file tree (where the "./" disappears).

So I'd suggest to remove this (in my eyes) superfluous prefix from the
dist tarball.  I assume that the "./" is a result of using "find .",
which prefixes all files with "./" automatically and nobody except me
had a problem with this before, so everybody is just ignoring the
behavior.

Are you okay with the following patch, which removes the "./" using
sed in GNUmakefile.in.  As far as I can see, this should just work.
It would be great if we could apply this before the next release.

Greetings
Roland

diff --git a/GNUmakefile.in b/GNUmakefile.in
index 9476426c..50f581a1 100644
--- a/GNUmakefile.in
+++ b/GNUmakefile.in
@@ -440,7 +440,7 @@ tarball-dist: dist-check clean clobber
 	for i in `find . -type f -a -not \( -path "*/CVS*" -o -name ".*" \
 	-o -path "*/debian/*" -o -path "*/actions/*" -o -name "*.php" -o \
 	-name "PACKAGERS" -o -path "*.git/*" \
-	-o -path "*/doc/webserver/feeds*" \) | sort`; do \
+	-o -path "*/doc/webserver/feeds*" \) | sort | sed 's/^\.\///'`; do \
 	   files="$$files privoxy-$(VERSION)-$(CODE_STATUS)/$$i"; \
 	done &&  \
 	cd .. && $(TAR) -cvhf privoxy-$(VERSION)-$(CODE_STATUS)-src.tar $$files ; \