Need Help with duperemove in Debian

[Marc Haber]

Hi Chris,

On Mon, Sep 08, 2025 at 10:10:35AM -0700, Chris Lamb wrote:
>>> The real causes, however, are that GNU Make has some interesting and
>>> nonintuitive sorting tripwires and you were caught out with them due
>>> to an issue due to some particular filenames chosen by the upstream
>>> duperemove developers.
>>
>> ... and them not using autotools, right? Or would that also happen with
>> plain autotools?
>
>Maybe? :)  I've never really learned Autotools properly, but as I
>understand it, they don't officially recommend you use wildcards at
>all [0] so the value of myoutput_SOURCES is often hardcoded in simple
>projects which are based on copy-pasting from the Autotools tutorial. :)

That makes sense.

>> Is that what you are suggesting? Or would there be a more "elegant" fix
>> that upstream could take?
>
>Yes, I'm suggesting you propose this patch upstream. :)

That is now https://github.com/markfasheh/duperemove/issues/390

Thanks for helping.

Greetings
Marc

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