Re: RFS: dvbackup

[Benoît Knecht <benoit.knecht@fsfe.org>]

Benoît Knecht wrote:
> Dmitry Smirnov wrote:
> > Interesting,
> > 
> > I was able to reproduce the problem when I downloaded my own package and
> > run 'debian/rules clean'
> > 
> > this puzzled me for an hour but then I found the problem.
> > Somehow a broken source package has been uploaded - it did not applied
> > patches I wrote to fix broke upstream makefiles.
> > 
> > My apologies.
> > It could be my mistake or the problem with my dodgy 3G internet
> > connection disconnecting every 5 min.  :(
> > 
> > 
> > I re-uploaded the package and checked it again - it seems to be OK now.
> > 
> > Sorry for troubles.
> 
> Well, I get it now. You're correcting the upstream Makefile with a
> patch, but git-buildpackage runs 'debian/rules clean' before doing
> anything else, including applying patches, so the "bad" clean target is
> run. Not sure what can be done about that (except bypassing
> dh_auto_clean entirely).

Okay, it was actually my fault all along; after importing the dsc file
with git-import-dsc, I should have run 'gbp-pq import' to import the
patches in a git branch, and then build that branch.

Sorry for the confusion.

-- 
Benoît Knecht