Hi, Quoting Ian Jackson (2015-09-26 13:13:32) > Your git tree might not already be clean. If it isn't, the generated source > package would be wrong. So the logic is as follows: > > - Your git tree might not be clean. > You can tell dgit that you promise it is, by saying --clean=none, > or simply have dgit check whether it is, with --clean=check. > > - By default, dgit does not run git-clean, because that would > delete anything you had forgotten to git-add. You can > tell dgit you want to run git-clean, with --clean=git[-ff]. > > - Otherwise, dgit needs to run rules clean. > > - According to the spec, rules clean needs the build-deps. > You can promise dgit that you your package's clean target does > not need the build-deps, with --clean=dpkg-source-d. > > Personally I like -wgf aka --clean=git-ff.
maybe I don't understand yet what it means for my git tree to be clean but I would've thought that if it is clean (no extra files, no uncommitted changes, no deleted files) then there is no need to run "debian/rules clean". Is that correct? > Depending on your --clean mode, dgit sbuild might itself use dpkg-source -b. According to the man page, it seems that --clean=git also uses dpkg-buildpackage. Why? Once `git clean -xdf` is run, there should be no need to call dpkg-buildpackage but "dpkg-source -b" should suffice, no? That would also then not require any special casing of passing -nc to dpkg-buildpackage. cheers, josch
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