Meson dist includes wrap-redirect files from local dependency

[WillAyd]

Describe the bug
I am working on a multi-language project with a layout like:

c/
  meson.build
python/
  adbc_driver_manager/
    meson.build
    subprojects 

In my Python configuration, I have something that will look for a system dependency of adbc-driver-manager (assumedly to be used by end users) but that will fall back to a local subproject for "at source" development:

adbc_driver_manager_dep = dependency(
    'adbc-driver-manager',
    fallback: ['arrow-adbc', 'adbc_driver_manager_dep'],
    default_options: ['driver_manager=enabled'],
)

I am also creating a symlink in the Python project to resolve to the "c" project:

python/
  adbc_driver_manager/
    subprojects/
      arrow-adbc/ -- > symlinks to c/

This works great for local development, but Meson automatically generates wrap files for transitive dependencies exposed by the arrow-adbc subproject. For example, the subproject relies on the fmt library, so I end up with a file subprojects/fmt.wrap that looks like:

[wrap-redirect]
filename = arrow-adbc/subprojects/fmt.wrap

This is problematic when I then run meson dist; the arrow-adbc symlinked directory is not included (which I believe is desired), but the auto-generated wrap-redirect files that point to files through that symlink are included with the dist

To Reproduce
See above

Expected behavior
Wrap files that are auto-generated from subprojects should not be included by default as part of the meson dist command

system parameters

• Is this a cross build or just a plain native build (for the same computer)? Plain
• what operating system (e.g. MacOS Catalina, Windows 10, CentOS 8.0, Ubuntu 18.04, etc.) Ubuntu 24.04
• what Python version are you using e.g. 3.8.0 3.13.1
• what meson --version 1.7.0
• what ninja --version if it's a Ninja build 1.12.1

[eli-schwartz]

wrap-redirect is such a hack...

@xclaesse supporting evidence for your theory?

[WillAyd]

For now my workaround has been to add a dist script and remove the unwanted wrap files through that