Re: Debian packaging with meson

[Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>]

Simon McVittie:
> On Fri, 17 Feb 2017 at 18:08:01 -0500, Jeremy Bicha wrote:
>> GNOME 3.24 modules have begun including meson build scripts.
> 
> It looks as though Meson approximately follows the Autotools-like
> build pipeline that dh assumes, so something like this should work:
> 
> override_dh_auto_clean:
> 	rm -fr debian/build
> 

Shameless ad for recent debhelper feature (that was not available when
#795253 was filed).
  The above can be replaced by adding "debian/build/" to debian/clean
(trailing slash is important).

See man dh_clean; requires debhelper (>= 9.20151116~)

Thanks,
~Niels