Uncleaned egg-info directory giving lots of bugs about failing to build after successful build
I'm sure I'm not the only one who received a whole bunch of bugs
entitled "Fails to build source after successful build" last weekend.
There was one theme common to most of them: the presence of a
*.egg-info directory which was not cleaned by debian/rules clean.
I know the bug report said that this policy is currently under
discussion, but I did get thinking about it. I imagine that this
particular directory should be the responsibility of dh-python to
clean up, but it may not be sensible to always delete *.egg-info
directories, as they may be present in the orig.tar.gz file. One
could handle it by manually adding this directory to debian/clean in
each package, but perhaps this should be the default behaviour of
dh-python?
Any thoughts?
Best wishes,
Julian
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