Re: Thoughts about src-dep implementation

[Peter S Galbraith <GalbraithP@dfo-mpo.gc.ca>]

Roman Hodek wrote:

> > Also, this would rely on "debian/rules clean" completely reversing
> > the effect of a build, and I can tell you right now, this was not
> > true of *any* package I have adopted
> 
> It's required to do so :-) And if you (like me) build sources during
> each round of the development cycle, you actually rely on it to
> completely reverse the effects of 'build', otherwise you have cruft in
> the source package. But that's rather easy to detect and to fix
> (IMHO): just look through the .diff.gz...

Yeah, I always do this after modifying a package and building it:

# zgrep +++ *.diff.gz

Peter