Bug#397939: Proposal: Packages must have a working clean target

[Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>]

On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 04:11:22PM +0100, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote:
> Package: debian-policy
> Severity: important
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> during the last months i had to review several packages. Quite a number
> of packages were not buildable two times (eg. "unrepresentable changes
> to source"). Most of these packages used svn-buildpackage or
> cvs-buildpackage. This bug is quite annoying as one needs to either
> manual interact or run dpkg-source -x again.
> 
> I therefore propose a policy change for etch+1, that all packages need
> to have a proper working clean target, so a directly rebuild of the
> package is possible without manual interaction.

And by "need" you mean MUST?  In the subject you also use the word must.

I would like to see such a change.


Kurt