Hello!
I just tried the debian-packaging-rules and found, that when it does the initial distclean, gpl.txt and fdl.txt get lost. IMHO this happens due to them being incorporated in DIST_DOCS in doc/Makefile.in, which is added to CLEANFILES.
Furthermore, the following changes to debian/rules were required to succeed:
--- debian/rules 9 Mar 2005 10:38:51 -0000 1.1 +++ debian/rules 28 Mar 2005 11:54:01 -0000 @@ -28,11 +28,12 @@ CFLAGS += -O2 endif
-config.status: configure +config.status: dh_testdir # Add here commands to configure the package. # FIX are all of these required? - aclocal -I m4 && autoheader && automake && autoconf && CFLAGS="$(CFLAGS)" ./configure --host=$(DEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE) --build=$(DEB_BUILD_GNU_TYPE) --prefix=/usr --mandir=$${prefix}/share/man --infodir=$${prefix}/share/info + aclocal-1.9 -I m4 && autoheader && automake-1.9 && autoconf && CFLAGS="$(CFLAGS)" ./configure --host=$(DEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE) --build=$(DEB_BUILD_GNU_TYPE) --prefix=/usr --mandir=$${prefix}/share/man --infodir=$${prefix}/share/info + cd Watchdog ; aclocal-1.9 && autoheader && automake-1.9 && autoconf && CFLAGS="$(CFLAGS)" ./configure --host=$(DEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE) --build=$(DEB_BUILD_GNU_TYPE) --prefix=/usr --mandir=$${prefix}/share/man --infodir=$${prefix}/share/info ; cd ..
## Architecture build: build-arch build-indep
Regards, Michael