Ralf Corsepius wrote:
Horst H. von Brand wrote:
> Most package sources in SCMs don't include those files, when they are in
> the tarballs it is for convenience AFAIU.
>
You are wrong - RTFM, e.g. info automake, info standards.
Software not including autotools-generated files in their SCM is actually
pretty common.
Kevin Kofler