Re: re-compiling package twice errors out

[Andreas Leha <andreas.leha@med.uni-goettingen.de>]

Roberto C. Sánchez <roberto@debian.org> writes:

> On Thu, Feb 16, 2023 at 10:37:00AM +0100, Andreas Leha wrote:
>> 
>> Dear Tomas,
>> 
>> Thanks for the swift reply!
>> 
>> OK, then I should do `quilt pop -a` before the second compilation,
>> right?
>> 
>> But that leads to another error message:
>> 
>
> This can be considered a bug in the package.  The idea is that debuild
> run 'debian/rules clean' first and the 'clean' target is expected to
> restore the source tree to the same state as what it was freshly
> unpacked (and all the quilt patches applied).  This package apparently
> doesn't do this correctly (or at all), and so you are forced to start by
> unpacking each team in order to have a clean build.  The correct
> solution is to fix the 'clean' target so that you can repeatedly run the
> build without having to remove the package directory and unpack it
> again.
>
> Regards,
>
> -Roberto

Thanks for all responses!