Bug#660193: developers-reference: please suggest debian/rules target name for preparing source

[Julian Gilbey <julian@d-and-j.net>]

On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 11:14:00AM +0100, Carsten Hey wrote:
> Package: developers-reference
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> Maintainers might decide to add a special make target to prepare the
> source tree for building, i.e., that make target is run by the
> maintainer after a VCS checkout and possibly before releasing new
> versions.  Possible reasons for this include reducing build dependencies
> and ensuring that specific files are equal on different architectures.
> Due to multi-arch, implementing such a target becomes more interesting.
> Although I do not expect this to be used widely, I think the developers
> reference should suggest a name for this target to archive consistency.
> 
> The package debianutils already uses such a target and uses 'prebuild'
> as name.  The developers reference could adopt this name.

How would this relate to Policy 4.14 - debian/README.source?

   Julian