Re: ocaml-md5sum problem in debian/rules

[Jérôme Marant <jmarant@free.fr>]

Samuel Mimram <samuel.mimram@ens-lyon.org> writes:

> Jérôme Marant wrote:
>> Since ocaml-md5sum is provided as a dpatch, there is a problem
>> on clean.
>> 
>> The clean target depends on the unpatch one. So, once unpatched,
>> -$(MAKE) -C ocaml-md5sums/ distclean cannot work since the Makefile
>> vanished, and this leaves compiled files around.
>
> BTW, wouldn't it be simpler to have it in debian/ocaml-md5sums (and not
> as a diff) and copy / remove the directory on build / clean in the
> rules? That would make things easier to modify it (we wouldn't have to
> do the whole dpatch thing each time).

I'm all for it, if there aren't technical downsides.

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Jérôme Marant