This one time, at band camp, Kurt Roeckx said:
> On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 04:11:22PM +0100, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote:
> >
> > 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.
clean
This must undo any effects that the build and binary targets may
have had, except that it should leave alone any output files created
in the parent directory by a run of a binary target.
We already have this rule, and it is a must directive already.
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