Bug#4641: Bug#4628: dpkg-dev bugs that are not bugs -- please close!

[Raul Miller <rdm@test.legislate.com>]

Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> wrote:
> I agree the solution these bugs give is wrong, but I think there is an
> underlying bug in dpkg-dev. The bug is that it creates the .tmp-nest
> directories, and if it's interrupted at the right time, it will leave them
> lying around. It should clean up the directories before exiting.

In the worst case (kill -9, power failure, kernel bug, ...), that's
not possible.  Which implies some kind of documentation being readily
available so the sysadmin can manually clean up this kind of thing.

An intermediate "try harder" sort of approach would be to keep a
detailed log on what's being built, and delete as long as what's
there exactly matches what could plausibly have been built.  I
don't know if that much effort/complexity is warranted, though.

-- 
Raul