Re: Fully debhelper-based build infrastructure

[Rafael Laboissière <rafael@debian.org>]

* Sébastien Villemot <sebastien@debian.org> [2018-01-13 11:06]:

> On Sat, Jan 13, 2018 at 10:18:30AM +0100, Rafael Laboissière wrote:
> > We must include support for it in dh-octave.  Since this will make the code 
> > in Buildsystem/octave.pm become more complex, I am planning to create a 
> > separate script called dh_octave_clean, as Mike suggested.
>
> I don't think we need to explicitly add support for that.
>
> The dh-way is to have these package add an override_dh_auto_clean target.
>
> Or am I missing something?

You are fully right.  This is the code in debian/rules for octave-octclip 
that works with the dh-octave package currently in GitLab:

   %:
           dh $@ --buildsystem=octave --with=octave

   override_dh_auto_clean:
           make -C src cleanall
           dh_auto_clean

Rafael