Re: How to remove an entire directory (and included files) with a quilt patch?

[Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>]

* Andrew Shadura <bugzilla@tut.by>, 2011-12-13, 08:41:
> > > > What is the correct way to remove an entire directory and it's 
> > > > contained files with a quilt patch?
> > > Why not do that in debian/rules ?
> > So you would patch the one file that needs patching, and remove the 
> > whole directory from debian/rules, am I following you right?
> >
> > How would I go about removing that directory? i.e. what call do I need 
> > to add to debian/rules?
>
> Doesn't debian/clean work for you?

You can't remove a directory via debian/clean.

Also, debian/clean is used by dh_clean, which is normally called in the 
clean target. But the clean target is not guaranteed to be run before 
building the package. (Unpacked source is supposed to be already clean.)

--
Jakub Wilk