Re: How are "official" tarballs built?

[Federico Mena Quintero <federico nuclecu unam mx>]

>  So, if I detect packaging errors in a tarball, I should
>  look at the dist: target (and distcheck: as well) in the 
>  toplevel makefile (OK, Makefile.in) and go from there.

If you detect a packaging error in a tarball, please tell us at once
about it so that we can put out a new tarball.  If you want to provide
a patch to fix it, you generally only need to look at the Makefile.am
files (Makefile and Makefile.in are generated files).

  Federico