Guillem Jover dixit: >Well, yes and no. This was brought up on IRC by Ansgar when this new >behavior showed up. The problem here is that you are building a source >package by making a source-only build, disabling dependency checks and >cleanup, which means the debian/files gets left behind.
I am disabling running 'debian/rules clean' (usually because the packages have Build-Depends my workstation cannot fulfil), not disabling dpkg cleaning up its own files _after_ the fact. Well, that was my intent anyway. >If what you want is to just create a source package then the correct >thing to do IMO is to just run dpkg-source --build. Of course you >might also need to run dpkg-source --before-build and --after-build. To remember all these is kinda dpkg-buildpackage’s job… >But not running clean and expecting things to stay clean seems a bit >too much hopeful! :) Well, the option is documented as “no-pre-clean”. Maybe I’m also using the wrong option, tell me… I generally use it only if building a source package from a clean VCS tree (to throw into cowbuilder or do a source- only upload) when “debian/rules clean” would error out (e.g. because it use(s|d to use) dh-systemd which I cannot install on the host system). In general, this works except for .pc/ and now debian/files. Might be useful to split them, maybe? -nc disables running d/r clean, and a new option -nC also disables removing these? >In principle for 1.19.x, I'd like to move all generated cruft to >something like debian/.build/ or similar, which means we could add >this to our VCS ignore rules and the above would "work". But otherwise I really prefer a lot to still have those files removed… I’d not ignore them but grumble and remove them after dpkg-buildpackage anyway, so please no. (Also, for git, ignored files generally stick around when switching branches, which may be annoying later too.) Thanks, //mirabilos -- Solange man keine schmutzigen Tricks macht, und ich meine *wirklich* schmutzige Tricks, wie bei einer doppelt verketteten Liste beide Pointer XORen und in nur einem Word speichern, funktioniert Boehm ganz hervorragend. -- Andreas Bogk über boehm-gc in d.a.s.r
