Remove Makefile

[Jeremy Bícha]

Please consider removing the Makefile.

As long as the Makefile is present, debhelper doesn't automatically recognize the buildsystem as meson so we have to specify that in debian/rules or deja-dup won't build correctly on Debian or Ubuntu.

It's probably better for everyone to use meson directly.

[Iftikhar Khan (f0cus10)]

Thank you for taking the time to make Ubuntu better. Since what you submitted is not really a bug, or a problem, but rather an idea to improve Ubuntu, you are invited discuss the idea with other Ubuntu community members in the many public forums. Public discussion of ideas improves the likelihood of adoption. Thanks for taking the time to share your opinion!

[Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)]

Respectfully, this is an appropriate place for me to make this request for the upstream developer.

Although this is on Launchpad, this is the upstream tracker not the Ubuntu bug tracker.

[Iftikhar Khan (f0cus10)]

I am sorry, that was a miscategorization on my part. I completely forgot I wasn't in dist/package. Anyway, I still can't see what you're saying.

`dh_auto_build` and `make -j6` work flawlessly on my machine.

[Michael Terry (mterry)]

I still like using the Makefile as syntactic sugar while developing. But I could add it to .gitattribute with a export-ignore tag, so it doesn't get shipped with tarballs.

[Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)]

I don't think 'ninja dist' respects export-ignore yet.

https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/issues/2287

[Michael Terry (mterry)]

@jbicha - you are right! But the downloads generated by https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/deja-dup/tags do respect it. I'm planning to slowly move code / downloads there.

[Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)]

Why there instead of a more traditional location like https://download.gnome.org/sources/gnome-tweaks/ ?

[Michael Terry (mterry)]

jbicha - oh I dunno I’m just a little World module - I hadn’t planned on using their download infrastructure.

[Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)]

Are you able to add the .asc from https://launchpad.net/deja-dup/+download over to https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/deja-dup/tags ? We use the .asc to verify the signed tarball when we import new releases to the Debian git repo.

[Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)]

I'm closing this issue since the tarballs at https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/deja-dup/tags don't have the Makefile. All I cared about was the release tarballs, so it doesn't matter whether the upstream repo has a Makefile.

https://mail.gnome.org/archives/distributor-list/2019-January/msg00000.html

Thanks!