Re: Problem with temporary package build directory removal

[Daniel Stone <daniel@kabuki.openfridge.net>]

On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 07:13:14AM -0400, Harry Henry Gebel wrote:
> On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 12:49:31PM +0200, Alwyn Schoeman wrote:
> 
> > I'm sorry, I meant dh_clean do not remove this directory.  So if package is
> > foo, then the build process would create debian/foo and install all the
> > files in that directory tree.  Upon dh_clean it should remove debian/foo,
> > but it doesn't.  If it was called debian/tmp it seems to work, but then I
> > need to add -Pdebian/tmp to most dh_* commands in debian/rules.
> 
> Do you have:
> 
> export DH_COMPAT=3
> 
> in your rules file? I adopted a package that didn't and found it tried to
> work in debian/tmp , but when I added the above to the top of my rules file
> it started using debian/package_name .

You also need to build-depend on debhelper >v3:
Build-Depends: debhelper (>> 3.0.0)

Because DH_COMPAT=3, makes it use debhelper v3 features.
Also, the best solution is to put dh_clean as one of the targets for clean:
in debian/rules. That way, fakeroot debian/rules clean, takes care of it.

My clean: line in debian/rules looks like:

clean:
        dh_testdir
        dh_testroot
        rm -f build-stamp configure-stamp
        
        # Clean everything up afterwards.
        -$(MAKE) clean

        dh_clean

So, fakeroot debian/rules clean, thoroughly cleans it.

Hope this helps,
:) d

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Daniel Stone		<daniel@kabuki.openfridge.net> <daniel@kabuki.sfarc.net>