id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	severity	resolution	keywords	cc	lang	patch	platform
1859	'make realclean' fails to remove release tarballs	jkeenan	jkeenan	"While working on TT #1850 the other day, I had occasion to invoke `make release`, a command which -- since I have yet to serve as Release Manager -- I had never previously invoked.

`make release` left me with the following files in my working directory:
{{{
parrot-2.10.0-devel.tar.bz2
parrot-2.10.0-devel.tar.bz2.sha256
parrot-2.10.0-devel.tar.gz
parrot-2.10.0-devel.tar.gz.sha256
}}}
The tarballs are, of course, quite large so I would like to remove them.  However, I have invoked `make realclean` may times since then and the files remain.  So it's obvious that these files are missing from the `realclean` target.

'''Question:'''  Do we '''want''' these files to be removed by `make realclean`.  ''Cet. par.,'' I'd say yes.  But perhaps someone who has served as Release Manager might have a different idea.

Thoughts?

kid51"	bug	closed	normal	2.10	tools	2.10.0	medium	wontfix		gerd			all