Re: build place cleanup
Hi,
On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 08:39:23PM +0200, Christoph Biedl wrote:
> a while ago I learned at a place I cannot remember that the clean
> target should restore the build place, more precisely: The state
> created after an initial unpacking ("dpkg-source -x" or the like) and
> "fakeroot debian/rules clean" should be restored after a build (debuild
> or the like) and clean (again: "fakeroot debian/rules clean") cycle.
The state after unpacking is also the state before packing. That is, if
you build a package twice, any files from the build left over after an
invocation of the clean target will end up in the packaging diff (or
stop the source package build).
Simon
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