This should be FIXED in HEAD now.

It looks like this was reverted by the another commit, without any comment about
it in the changelog. Mistake?

It stopped distchecking, and I needed to do a release. I thought I had added a
changelog entry, though... hrm.

Let's see. 

$(schema_DATA) is gnome-terminal.schemas, which is generated at dist time, so it
is in the source directory, and the command to install schemas currently reads:

  GCONF_CONFIG_SOURCE=$(GCONF_SCHEMA_CONFIG_SOURCE) $(GCONFTOOL)
--makefile-install-rule $(srcdir)/$(schema_DATA)

which looks sane to me. Before the reversion, it used
$(top_builddir)/src/$(schema_DATA) instead, which failed during distcheck
because gnome-terminal.schemas is not in the build dir. 

The current situation seems the correct one to me: I guess I am missing something?

Hmm gnome-terminal seem to distribute schemas differently than other gnome apps.
Generally the .in file is distributed and the schemas generated from it.
gnome-terminal distributes the schemas file directly. Any reason for that?

It seems like the .in file is distributed here just like in every other module.
What makes you think it's not? EXTRA_DIST has $(schemas_in_files) and no mention
of the .schemas file at all.

Marco? Ping?

I dont remember the reason of my comment, it's passed a lot of time. Anyway
probably something is changed because using top_buildir now seem to work fine
for distcheck too. Attaching patch...

Created attachment 52386 [details] [review]
Use buildir for gnome-terminal.schemas

The patch doesn't apply. Is the problem gone? Can this be closed?

Uh, sorry, my stupid mistake. It does apply and has been applied. Thanks.