I'm not a perl guy, but I think this patch ought to do it.
commit 2b54c9176d53288038c7a7eebfa00e948a9e08c0
Author: Barak A. Pearlmutter <b...@debian.org>
Date: Fri Oct 9 16:52:14 2015 +0100
allow trailing / in debian/clean files
diff --git a/dh_clean b/dh_clean
index acb23db..fc67577 100755
--- a/dh_clean
+++ b/dh_clean
@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ B<clean> target in F<debian/rules>.
=item F<debian/clean>
Can list other files to be removed.
+Ending a listed file in "/" allows removal of a directory including its contents.
=back
@@ -113,7 +114,13 @@ if (! $dh{D_FLAG}) {
if (!compat(6) && -e "debian/clean") {
my @clean=grep { ! excludefile($_) }
filearray("debian/clean", ".");
- doit("rm","-f","--",@clean) if @clean;
+ for my $f (@clean) {
+ if ($f =~ /\/$/) {
+ doit("rm","-rf","--",$f);
+ } else {
+ doit("rm","-f","--",$f);
+ }
+ }
}
doit("rm","-f","debian/files")
