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Re: Ensuring a clean diff



On 16/12/2007, Simon Ruggier wrote:
> Hi, this is a piece of advice to help people ensure that they don't
> let anything unwanted into their diff.gz, until such time as lintian
> starts warning about this:
> 
> In ~/.devscripts, I have:
> DEBUILD_POST_DPKG_BUILDPACKAGE_HOOK="zcat %p_%v.diff.gz | lsdiff"

I always check the final source package using zcat and lsdiff, and it
works very well, indeed. ;-)

> The two lines in the second file tell svn-buildpackage to use debuild,
> so that this hook is still run when using svn-buildpackage, and to
> preserve the build directory in between builds, so that we can still
> check that the clean target works properly, and that packages won't
> FTBFS the second time they are built.

What about adding this tip to the wiki?

Cheers,

-- 
Cyril Brulebois

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