Horst H. von Brand wrote:
Ralf Corsepius <rc040203(a)freenet.de> wrote:
[...]
> What people like Toshio and you miss: auto*generated files are
> (upstream) maintainer generated _sources_, not being meant to be
> automatically generated nor regenerated.
>
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.
And if the sources from which those files are created are being
distributed in the package I'd take that as a strong hint that you are
free to recreate them as needed.
If you know what you are doing, yes.