Hi, On Mon, 26 Sep 2011, Nicholas Bamber wrote: > I maintain a package using git. So in the normal state in which I check > stuff in the the patches are unapplied. The upstream makefiles happen to > remake a number of files (to generate random numbers for security). > Obviously I don't want to stop that, but I do want to restore those > files before I check anything else in. So my normal build sequence might be: > > dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc > fakeroot debian/rules clean > quilt pop -a > rm -rf .pc > > At that point I would expect to have a completely clean git workspace.
What you're looking for is "dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc -tc". One command instead of 4 with the same effect. With this setup debian/rules clean is called while patches are still applied. Given this knowledge, do you still believe that it's important to have a --no-unapply-patches or similar? Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer Follow my Debian News ▶ http://RaphaelHertzog.com (English) ▶ http://RaphaelHertzog.fr (Français) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
